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Quote:and delivering solutions for AT&T, Corrections Corporation of America, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, and others.

I do, too...
I am first delivery boy at a fast food joint and I deliver solutions to the above professionals...at times with...at times without french fries...

LIVE ACTION DHS VIDEO!!

Dinky Doctor Dickie Douglas tells us how he "grooms" employees for...??

Link: http://www.chds.us/?player&id=2290

Hey Heather, where'd you get the midget? I thought Billy Barty was dead?



If it's all about "growing" employees maybe you could grow them a little taller, so they didn't need a booster seat to see over the table top.



Couldn't they have gotten Richie a phone book or something to sit on?

Quote:Succession Planning for DHS Employees
Richard Douglas [4 Nov 2009]
Succession planning involves not only replacing DHS employees when they decide to leave, but also "growing" employees through on-going training. Dr. Richard Douglas, Director for the Leadership Institute, DHS University System explains how the DHS employees of today are being groomed to be the DHS leaders of the future.

I believe I've seen that fellow's picture somewhere before.

I think it was in the dictionary next to the definition of "slack-jawed yokel."

The thing that jumps off the page at me is the juxtaposition of the DHS University and the Naval Postgraduate School. The Naval Postgraduate School is not only totally legitimate (RA masters and doctorates, plus some ABET, AACSB and NASPAA programs), it is a prestigious name in military and government circles. I'm sure that some left-wing academic weenie like George Gollin(sky) doesn't think too much of it, but most non-academics probably realize that he is a complete dick anyway. Most normal people, and mainstream DL mavens like Bear/Douglas/Foerster/Bruce Tait, would undoubtedly be suitably impressed by someone with a postgrad degree from NPS. I'm sure that the alternative lifestyle crowd, especially Contreras, Chip and DesElms would be critical of NPS' less-than-accepting attitude toward gay service members, something which commissioned officers are required to do based on current UCMJ regulations.

My question is how Dr. Douglas, a retired Air Force officer, managed to convince the senior U.S. Navy brass that the nascent DHS University rates being affiliated with the 100 year-old Naval Postgraduate School in any capacity? The fact that he was able to do so, so the DHS bureaucrats must rationalize, has paid for his salary many, many times over.

Quote:Wow, that vaunted Union PhD was so powerful he felt the need to go get another doctorate. Well, you can't have too many, especially when the first one is crap.

I have a copy of RCD's Union PhD Dissertation if anyone would like a copy - free, but $30NZ air post.

Wow, that vaunted Union PhD was so powerful he felt the need to go get another doctorate. Well, you can't have too many, especially when the first one is crap.

Quote:I have a copy of RCD's Union PhD Dissertation if anyone would like a copy - free, but $30NZ air post.

Which would violate the copyright, "doctor." But I would expect no less from someone with two (two!) fake doctorates stemming from the same unsupervised treatment.

It is available for a slightly higher cost, and likely more quickly, from Proquest. Oh, and legally, too.

Proquest?
What title, exactly?

ham Wrote:Proquest?
What title, exactly?

My Little Book of ... It escapes me at the moment.

Quote:When State Approval was offered without a description, almost 96% of participants rated it at least "Somewhat Acceptable." Even after reading the provided description of State Approval, slightly more than 65% of participants still rated it at least "Somewhat Acceptable." This leads one to to conclude that two-thirds (or even more) of employers may accept degrees from unaccredited, but state-approved, schools.

--Richard C. Douglas
page 136, The Accreditation Of Degree-Granting Institutions And Its Role In The Utility Of College Degrees In The Workplace, 2003

Winston Smith Wrote:

Quote:When State Approval was offered without a description, almost 96% of participants rated it at least "Somewhat Acceptable." Even after reading the provided description of State Approval, slightly more than 65% of participants still rated it at least "Somewhat Acceptable." This leads one to to conclude that two-thirds (or even more) of employers may accept degrees from unaccredited, but state-approved, schools.

--Richard C. Douglas
page 136, The Accreditation Of Degree-Granting Institutions And Its Role In The Utility Of College Degrees In The Workplace, 2003

Yup. Great quote, too. Imagine what happens to the other 1/3 who get caught.