Sage advice from Steve Levicoff

[ham]

Finally, the U of London thing is complete bullshit on the part of the university. If you successfully passed their exams and other degree completion requirements, how are they justified in creating a two-tier system with respect to diploma issuance?

I was addressing the point of getting a DL degree from a B&M school being 'better' than getting one from a school operating only at a distance.
I once asked an Athabasca faculty member to write an academic letter, which he did on AU's letterhead. Well, he went like: I am doctor John Smith, professor of whatever with Athabasca University. Don't you think it's enough? Not for him...he later added TWICE the reference to 'distance' and 'online' courses. And he was pretty enthusiastic (=I didn't ask the 'wrong' person ) and laudatory. But I ask: he had already mentioned (on letterhead ) he was with AU, but why did he feel compelled to stress my postgraduate courses were online and distance ones?
There still is this sort of feeling of 'shame' or 'underachievement' even from people who work with fully accredited DL institutions; many (most?) still think that an A+ with a top, fully accredited distance school ought to be better exchanged for a B or a C with a third-tier B&M school.
Now, a teacher at some rotten, filthy community college plagued by minority gang warfare would NEVER mention the 'standing' of his school...( I am doctor John Smith, professor of diversity at Wetback college, the nation's third highest crime rate institution ).