08-11-2009, 07:58 PM
DI Administrator Randell1234 is about to learn first hand what many of us here have been saying for literally years. The NCU PhD program is STILL in chaos and the administration is STILL arbitrarily applying policies as they make them up. Randell is about to go down the dumper after wasting a lot of time and money on a HORSESHIT PROGRAM.
A victim of bad timing? No, a victim of a really rotten, crappy, fifth rate scam of a school.
Just plain wrong? Tell it to NCACS. They accredit this mess. This is your RA "gold standard" in action. Hecht takes the gold and you get the standard up your ass.
Quote:Here is the timeline for my Concept Paper Coursehttp://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread....a0&t=31622
Assignment 1 --? turned in on June 1 and graded on June 1 (accepted)
Assignment 2 -- turned in on June 1 and graded on June 1 (accepted)
Assignment 3 -- turned in on June 1 and graded on June 2 (accepted)
Assignment 4 -- turned in on June 2 and graded on June 3 (accepted)
Assignment 5 -- turned in on June 3 and graded on June 4 (rejected)
Assignment 5 -- turned in on June 4 and graded on June 5 (accepted)
Assignment 6 -- turned in on June 6 and graded on June 7 (rejected)
Assignment 6 -- turned in on June 7 and graded on June 8 (accepted)
Assignment 7 -- turned in on June 8 and graded on June 9 (accepted)
Assignment 8 -- turned in on June 10 and graded on June 12 (rejected)
Assignment 8 -- turned in on June 14 and graded on June 19 (rejected)
Assignment 8 -- turned in on June 22 and graded on June 24 (rejected)
Assignment 8 -- turned in on June 24 and graded on June 26 (accepted by chair and forwarded to committee review)
Assignment 8 -- turned in on June 26 and graded on July 8 (rejected by committee)
Assignment 8 -- turned in on July 9 and graded on July 18 (rejected by committee - they rejected for a new set of "issues")
Assignment 8 -- turned in on July 19 and graded on July 25 (accepted by committee and forwarded to SRT)
Assignment 8 -- turned in on July 25 and graded on August 6 (SRT - rejected)
Assignment 8 -- turned in on August 9 and now I am waiting.
After this level of review it needs to go through the university review. The class ends on 8/24 and I don't think it will make it through the process. I was told that one reviewer was holding it to Dissertation Proposal Standards when it is a Concept Paper. I don't know about anyone else's Concept Paper but mine is 50 pages with the Annotated Bibliography.
I was also told that the school just added another level of review and realized it was not a good idea so they are taking it out. Basically, I am the victim of bad timing. I am so frustrated I actually started to call other schools and asked how many credits they would take--asking if they would take an ABD and let me just wrap up the program with them if their process was better. I know that is extreme but I am pissed. After all of this, if I do not pass the course on time, I lose the $1,500 tuition assistance. I was told that during the accreditation review the school was told they needed to step up the academic quality of the dissertations so now they are going over board. Sorry for the rant but I am really, really frustrated. I can understand reviewers asking for different things but this is just plain wrong!
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Randell
A victim of bad timing? No, a victim of a really rotten, crappy, fifth rate scam of a school.
Just plain wrong? Tell it to NCACS. They accredit this mess. This is your RA "gold standard" in action. Hecht takes the gold and you get the standard up your ass.