12-13-2011, 02:55 AM
(10-11-2011, 02:15 PM)ham Wrote:Quote:When Ms. Toft showed up and started asking questions, Mr. Bagger announced that he would call San Francisco to prove that he was telling the truth about his Ph.D. Ms. Toft, smelling a rat, told him not to bother: "I knew him too well."
PFFT!
The fact of having a friend playing the ambassador of the United Mongol Emirates in order to confirm that you are the crown prince over the phone to some idiot is something Ham used to do at age 11.
(10-11-2011, 03:58 PM)Armando Ramos Wrote: True, not very sophisticated, but even at that a better play than "my dog ate my dissertation," which is the best Lowe could manage. Which makes you wonder how he got to be a college president in the first place if that's the level at which he functions.
If this is the "fixit man" what a circus the AL community college system must be. And that's a government system, not the private schools that the AL paper shufflers are trying so vigorously to run out of business.
So where is SACS in all this, busy trying to shut down another HBCU? Seems like these sub-standard government-run programs are what ought to be keeping them working overtime instead. Glen S. McGhee is right; as a standard of educational quality SACS accreditation is irrelevant.
Maybe it wasn't very creative but it was still pretty humorous that he tried to pull it off.
As far as this guy, James Lowe, running a public Alabama 2-year college, who loses their diss? C'mon, that strains credibility. That being said, a 2-year juco in Alabama probably has the academic standards of a vocational high school. Mr. Lowe has demonstrated that he has the skills and experience to manage the troubled Bishop State College. Would they be better off hiring someone with a legit PhD with no experience running a 2-year college?