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tenuredprof Wrote:Hard copy - not digital - as with many people, my time is simply more valuable that that.
The ordering time is the same.
Quote:A prediction: at some point, RD's dissertation is going to be "recalled" by Union - Ph.D.'s simply do not use a descriptive (survey) research methodology in their dissertation. It's simply a matter of "attention".
Not "descriptive." "Inferential" and "experimental."
The use of a survey does not render the research "descriptive." "Descriptive," when using quantitative analysis, refers to descriptive statistics which, while effective in understanding conditions, do not lend themselves to inferences about populations (paramaters, differences, before-and-after changes, etc.).
The dissertation in question has two distinct weaknesses, but the research methodologies employed and the results obtained are not among them.
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Duggle Wrote:The dissertation in question has two distinct weaknesses, but the research methodologies employed and the results obtained are not among them.
Richard and Douglas?
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Average length to completion of PhD. Not 9 months. More like 90 months. Dr. Bear post at degreediscussion, Douglas replies.
http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...f=2&t=5971
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Dennis Ruhl Wrote:Average length to completion of PhD. Not 9 months. More like 90 months. Dr. Bear post at degreediscussion, Douglas replies.
http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...f=2&t=5971
John Bear doesn't deserve to have the title Dr and should not be recognized as such. After Bear being Rich Douglas' mentor and advocate for Douglas to attain (purchase) his doctoral degree in nine (9) months with little more than a term paper as his final work, Bear should hang his head in same and ask his former univerity to take back his Ph.D. (Douglas should give back his diploma as well).
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Dennis Ruhl Wrote:Average length to completion of PhD. Not 9 months. More like 90 months.
I think it's simply a matter of time before RD finds himself without a Ph.D.
Quick Ph.D. from U of L for ex-client
Two years after giving former University of Louisville dean Robert Felner's research center a $375,000 contract, a California school superintendent received a doctoral degree from U of L in only one semester.
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbc ... /809100797
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tenuredprof Wrote:Dennis Ruhl Wrote:Average length to completion of PhD. Not 9 months. More like 90 months.
I think it's simply a matter of time before RD finds himself without a Ph.D.
How much time? It's been more than 5 years.
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Duggle Wrote:tenuredprof Wrote:Dennis Ruhl Wrote:Average length to completion of PhD. Not 9 months. More like 90 months.
I think it's simply a matter of time before RD finds himself without a Ph.D.
How much time? It's been more than 5 years.
I'd be surprised if Union isn't forced to take a look at it within the next year or so...all it takes is a slow news day...RD's public comments certainly aren't helping his eventual situation ("I have an Education doctorate", etc.). If his job he was hired at required it - then he might seriously want to start preparing to change employers - before he's forced to.
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tenuredprof Wrote:Duggle Wrote:tenuredprof Wrote:Dennis Ruhl Wrote:Average length to completion of PhD. Not 9 months. More like 90 months.
I think it's simply a matter of time before RD finds himself without a Ph.D.
How much time? It's been more than 5 years.
I'd be surprised if Union isn't forced to take a look at it within the next year or so...all it takes is a slow news day...RD's public comments certainly aren't helping his eventual situation ("I have an Education doctorate", etc.). If his job he was hired at required it - then he might seriously want to start preparing to change employers - before he's forced to.
Must be Union University counted Douglas' two years of spaming and pushing Shelia Danzig's MIGS which count enough that Union kissed John Bear's ass and gave his buddy Douglas a Ph.D.
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Does anyone really know Union's policy on accepting 20 year old coursework? It seems odd that a school would not want its graduates to be more current. Or perhaps Union is more concerned with the cash.
It's not as if anyone in academia takes a Union doctorate seriously. For a purported "education" degree not to have anyone with formal training in education on the doctoral committee seems highly unusual.
I was thinking of taking my doctorate in nuclear physics. My 20 year old coursework should be okay. Maybe I can get Dr. Bear with his PhD in communications to lead my committee. Maybe I can get some miscellaneous administrators of a mix of schools to be on it, including one from a school that lost its California license. Union, which seems to grant degrees in areas they have no expertise should have no problem granting a doctorate in nuclear physics. Or do they consider physics too technical and that education is just bullshit anyways so they don't apply any standards.
