Chrysler workers face St. Regis administrators

Some excerpts from a June 2 WTHR TV (Indianapolis) story: Chrysler workers face St. Regis administrators.

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Poor St Regis, it seems that everytime I turn around there's another SRU alumni that's abusing their SRU degree. It was just a little while ago that we found out that those evil teachers in Georgia were falsely claiming doctorate and master's degrees that were really only ABD degrees. Now perhaps SRU forgot to tell these evil teachers that they didn't really have a degree because then it would defeat the purpose of SRU which is to scam people out of money but it is just sad that so many dishonest graduates come from SRU. No wonder SRU wants to sell their degrees to pigeons. Pigeons don't have the brains to misuse their hard earned degrees! (Hard earned for a pigeon)

 

Bill,

Am I missing something?

What is an ABD degree? I know that ABD stands for "all but dissertation," meaning that the student (typically a PhD candidate) has completed all degree requirements except for the dissertation.

So, does St. Regis grants a degree to students who are in ABD status? Is it like a post-grad diploma? Is the ABD degree targeted to those students in a hurry who do not have 30 minutes to complete the questionnaire?

 

it's bland luncheon meat favored by young children.

Occam's Razor to the rescue!

Imagine that a coworker, known as a teller of outrageous tall tales and a shooter of furry animals, explains that he missed work the first day of hunting season because he was abducted by aliens. The aliens, he adds, gave him a deer carcass to apologize for his abduction.

We can take his story at face value, but there's a simpler, and more likely, explanation.

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Yes indeed. It's unlikely that the aliens would give someone a gift. They're not like that. A much simpler explanation is that the coworker is himself the alien, and that the deer was killed for some awful kind of experimentation.

 

Starman

That's a negative: aliens like deer. Remember Starman? Aliens also like Dutch apple pie.

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Stefaniak again!

Here's Bob Stefaniak's picture.... http://saintregis.edu.lr/faculty/faculty_images/bobcrdpix.jpg

This guy was at one time a customer of SRU, and used to write on their discussion board about how his wife (who has real degrees) was concerned about his going off the deep end with this whole "Liberian degree" thing.

But apparently things have all settled down in the Stefaniak household and he is totally comfortable with first running the "humanitarian aid operation" to Liberia, and now being a roaming spokesperson for SRU to attempt to cover up the dirt that is emerging everywhere. Why he would choose to believe this lie which he knows is a lie is beyond me, unless it is part of his continuing self-rationalization of his own "degree".

He doesn't know anything more about SRU or who owns it or who runs it than the dupes who are paying for the fake degrees. Just another student/customer-turned-professor that SRU is using to handle their dirty work while the real, secret owners pocket all the cash, and do so with impunity.

That's my read of the situation anyway....

 

video now on the WTHR site

A link to streaming video for the WTHR story is now available on the WTHR site. Included is interview footage of Mr. Stefaniak and Mr. Shafiq, as well as closeups of an SRU transript.

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Re: video now on the WTHR site

LOL!!!!!

What a pair of buffoons!!!!!

LOL!!!

 

I'm sorry Mr. Traxler, it was a joke. There was a thread about SRU where someone had posted this HUGE cesspool of incoherent rambling that was allegedly from SRU. This thread was deleted by the moderators for being blatant degree mill apologia/advertisement. In there it was argued that SRU was totally innocent of any wrong doing in the Georgia teacher scandal. It was argued that the teachers were granted the degrees ABD by SRU and the teachers then claimed them as Ph.D. which is what got them in trouble.

The strange double think in my post was meant to be a humorous jab at the SRU personality. Each degree mill seems to have their own personality and a hilarious aspect of SRU is that they remain such a blatant degree mill yet aggressively argue that they are fully accredited, fully accepted by all fair minded academics, totally legit, any specific problems pointed out are minor and in the past. Going forward from this day forth, SRU will have a sparkling reputation and behave as one of the leading academic institutions in the world.

 

it's here

...can be found here for the time being. It is attributed to Mr. Stefaniak.

Some of it is inaccurate. For example, the description of who testified at the Senate Government Affairs hearings in May is not correct.

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Re: it's here

The fellow that copied it to DegreeInfo couldn't even get the bold type attribute correct. It is easier to read and is slightly more coherent when it is obvious who is saying what.

A little of it is also accurate.

 

You don't need to apologize, Mr. Huffman. I've read the link provided by Galanga and it all makes sense now.

I found this pretty interesting:

How can a degree be issued if not all requirements are completed? Isn't that why universities list "degree requirements" in their catalogs? You complete all requirements first, then you are awarded a degree... that's how I think real schools operate.

 

That was the part of the the SRU statement that I found most amusing.

 

dessert

Do you think the SRU cafeteria serves a lot of Dutch apple pie?

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Yes, and Reese's Pieces

 

Reese pieces ...

Jeez,

That was funny ...

MM

 

Interestingly, DaimlerChrysler has long accepted SRU degrees for their MANAGEMENT. It will be interesting to see how some of these execs fare if they get downsized with the workers, particularly now that their degrees have been "outed."

 

documentation?

Whoops! Is there any documentation of this that is available?

thanks,
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Just from personal experience. "I don't work there anymore." It was somewhat chronicled here, BTW. You might be able to bring it up with a search. Briefly, I was denied tuition assistance to pursue my MBA through Heriot-Watt, partially on the basis that H-W degrees are not apostilled. I pointed out that H-W was not on the ODA list which I had printed out. I left the list with him, I did not point out that the degree hanging on his wall WAS on the list. A couple of days later, my Manager, (Masters in Quality from Hamilton U) called me into his office and told me that I had a "bad attitude." Things went quickly downhill from there. I'm now enjoying my new job at slightly better pay in a friendly environment.
"Thank You, St. Regis"