Taft-Master of Education

Taft University will soon be offering a Master of Education Program in addition to their law and business programs. More information will be available in the fall.

 

What utility would a NA Masters in ed have in the real world? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm actually wondering.

 

In a school setting a NA degree wouldn't have much, if any, utility. A NA MEd might be useful in other training situations though.

 

Does anyone know if NCATE will accredit DETC programs or only RA programs?

 

That's an interesting question Ted. I don't remember seeing NCATE accreditation at any of the DETC schools where I looked at the M.Ed. programs.

I'm going to dig around the NCATE site.

 

Does anyone know if Taft will ever re-institute the EdD? They used to offer same back when they still had Boyer Graduate School of Education (which I believe now has an independent existence).

 

Possibilities:

Teaching High School : You might want to check whether the state(s) where you wish to be certified in will accept a DETC MEd as a valid credential for certiffication purposes or whether the district(s) you wish to teach in will accept a DETC MEd as a valid credential for hiring, salary scale, and advancement purposes.

Teaching Community College: Do the CC's offer freshman & sophomore level education classes? If so, CC's may be less picayune about the prestige of a DETC MEd.

Teaching in Four-Year Colleges & Above: Here you're probably looking at whether a DETC MEd can get into an RA EdD.

Teaching Through Distance Learning Institutions: Perhaps a DETC MEd will be just fine here.

Private Industry: Perhaps here a prospective employer looking for a corporate training/knowledge management person might care less (or not even know) about prestige pissing matches between accrediting agencies.

The other big question might be (as I mentioned before) whether NCATE would accredit DETC degrees or only RA degrees.

 

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Such a degree might have value for teachers/admins in some parochial schools, or for clergy responsible for substantial congregational education programs.

 

Some parochial schools might accept a NA M.Ed. Most of the private/parochial schools I work with are regionally accredited and you would have to really do some convincing to get them to accept a NA accredited masters. Most would not.

I still think there are corporate training positions for which it would be viable.

 

Taft can't (yet) offer an Ed.D. under DETC accreditation.

It seems to me, though, that Taft did at one time offer doctorates in education through an affiliated school of education. I don't recall its name.

 

See Ted's posting above...it was Boyer.

 

Most private schools and charter schools would be able to hire someone with an NA masters without any problem. Specific public school districts may have policies in place limiting hires to only RA degrees, but other require only accredited degrees. Most community colleges and 4-year colleges/universities have plicies limiting hires to RA degrees, but I have seen that rule bypassed on numerous occasions. Certainly an RA masters degree has much wider acceptance an usability in academic than an NA degree.

If the new Republican chair of the Senate Education Committee has his way, RA institutions would be required to accept NA degrees in transfer, thus increasing the acceptance of national accreditation.

 

What is that Republicans name?

 

Cool! I'll go from CIE to MIT while those RA saps suck wind.

There's just gotta be more to the thing than you've indicated.

 

Michael Enzi

http://www.degreeinfo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20335

 

There is. First of all, he has to get his bill passed. Second of all, you would have to qualify academically to get into MIT

 

There's always a catch.

Seriously, I not only don't agree with the notion of forced acceptance of NA degrees but don't see how this legislation can have any substance. Not, that is, if RA schools retain the right to accept or reject degrees from particular schools.

I'm suspecting that the coercion is intended to be indirect as in tied to federal funding or federal something-or-other. Do you know what Senator X is proposing or is it too soon to divine senatorial minds?

 

Which docs is the DETC going to be able to accredit? So far they've got two JDs (Concord & Taft) and one DBA (CSU). Other than that, PhDs are out of the question.

 

I do not recall...does the CSU DBA have a dissertation requirement? Obviously, the JD degrees would not. If research degrees with dissertations are what the DETC will not do, then they would probably have difficulty offering the Ed.D. Of course, they could now use the latest situation with the California State U. as an example of how they can get into the research degree business by offering a research degree masqueraded as a "professional" or "applied" degree.