This is a post at DD by Hungry Ghost referring to educators obtaining and using BSU degrees:
"I agree with Rich pretty emphatically. Degree mill degrees are particularly damning when it's professional educators boasting them.
If an "educator" didn't know, if he/she couldn't distinguish between a real program and a fake one, then professional competence is in question.
If the "educator" did know that the program was doubtful, but boasted the degree anyway in order to impress laymen and make more money, then professional ethics are in question.
Either way, it's not a good thing."
I don't understand the logic of that, what exactly is a "fake" program of education??? A fake degree is one obtained without any work from an unaccredited and unlicensed school, but what is exactly the definition of fake education? It's common knowledge that doctoral students at BSU complete a number of courses, each including written assignments and time-limited online exams, and also write a dissertation. OK, the standard may be low (although no one has proven that), but how can one say this education is fake and the other one is real?
In the case of these educators, their BSU degrees are real too since they were licensed by the state of Alabama at the time they obtained them. It seems the only "crime" of these educators was that they didn't check whether Alabama licensed degrees are acceptable in N.J.
"I agree with Rich pretty emphatically. Degree mill degrees are particularly damning when it's professional educators boasting them.
If an "educator" didn't know, if he/she couldn't distinguish between a real program and a fake one, then professional competence is in question.
If the "educator" did know that the program was doubtful, but boasted the degree anyway in order to impress laymen and make more money, then professional ethics are in question.
Either way, it's not a good thing."
I don't understand the logic of that, what exactly is a "fake" program of education??? A fake degree is one obtained without any work from an unaccredited and unlicensed school, but what is exactly the definition of fake education? It's common knowledge that doctoral students at BSU complete a number of courses, each including written assignments and time-limited online exams, and also write a dissertation. OK, the standard may be low (although no one has proven that), but how can one say this education is fake and the other one is real?
In the case of these educators, their BSU degrees are real too since they were licensed by the state of Alabama at the time they obtained them. It seems the only "crime" of these educators was that they didn't check whether Alabama licensed degrees are acceptable in N.J.