Question for Nova Students Past and Present

Particularly DBA students. How hard is it to meet the publication requirement that's part of the curriculum? Can you absolutely not graduate until you are published?

 

One more thing

Oh one other question. Are you considered to have fulfilled the requirement if you are published prior to enrolling at Nova. Just curious.

Thanks

 

As best I know (being a 1996 graduate, but being a continuing student through 2003), the publication requirement is in fact a requirement and must be done while a student. It isn't too hard to meetl. Students are required to attend a preofessional conference (such as AIS for IT students, American Marketing Association for marketing students, etc.) as part of their program and one can publish there. In addition, there are numerous small and medium sized conferences that are fairly easily to get published at.

I believe that the attendance at an academic conference and the publication requirements are excellent requirements for the program. These venues help the student learn how the academic process works - submitting, reviewing and presenting papers. I would challenge other part-time PhD and DBA programs to match this. The deal is this - NSU DBA students have to publish work that has been blind reviewed. This is one way to ensure quality in the program - someone who doesn't know your name or where you are from has read your work and finds it to be reputable.

I've attached the requirements below. These are taken from the NSU student website. I do not believe these are copyrighted.

Regards - Andy

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The publication requirement is not part of the dissertation processes. However, it often is overlooked as one of the requirements for graduation. It is designed to show the research, writing, and/or presentation abilities of the student.

For students in the general DBA or DPA Programs, the publication should make a contribution in a business or public administration area of choice. For students in a specialty area, the publication should be a contribution in that specialty area. The Huizenga School has identified the following criteria for satisfactory fulfillment of the Doctoral Publication Requirement:

Criteria for Acceptability of Publications

Accomplishments such as the following satisfy the H. Wayne Huizenga School's publication requirement:
An article published in an academic journal or similar publication,


An article published in the proceedings of a national professional conference, such as the Academy of Management, where rigorous criteria must be met,


A report or monograph published by a professional organization, corporation, or public agency where rigorous criteria for selection can be demonstrated,


Other written materials may be submitted for consideration. Such materials will be judged on their academic content,


In any case, the student must be the primary or sole author of the publication,


One of the criteria for meeting rigorous criteria for publication is double blind review by qualified academic reviewers. Reviewers selected by a journal or by conference chairpersons are qualified academic reviewers,


The submitted publication must have been accepted after the student registered in the H. Wayne Huizenga School and before the date of the student’s graduation,


The submitted document should be empirically based,


The target audience should be academic peers.

Achievements such as the following do not satisfy the H. Wayne Huizenga School's publication requirement:
Newspaper editorials or articles, papers, or books written for the general public,


Course, curricula, training or program design materials,


The dissertation per se,


Consulting reports written for a specific client, policy manuals, or procedure manuals,


Conference papers presented, but not authored by the student,


Conference presentations, poster sessions, or workshop presentations where the paper is not published in proceedings,


Reviewers selected by the student or by the student’s friends, fellow students, family, work associates, chairperson, or committee members are not double blind, academically qualified reviewers,


A journal, conference, or workshop created by the student or by the student’s friends, fellow students, family, work associates, chairperson, or committee members does not qualify as an outlet for an approvable publication,


Interviews with one or few respondents or non-empirical opinion documents,


Speaking engagements generally do not fulfill the publication requirement.


Procedural Issues
The student’s status as a doctoral student at the H. Wayne Huizenga School should be noted in the submitted publication.


A copy of the acceptance letter and a copy of the paper must be mailed to:



The H. Wayne Huizenga School’s Associate Dean or the Director of Doctoral Programs decide whether a specific publication meets the Huizenga School’s doctoral publication requirement. The Associate Dean or the Director of Doctoral Programs will mail a letter to the student giving his or her decision on the acceptability of a given publication. Other kinds of approval are not official approvals.

 

Re: Re: Question for Nova Students Past and Present

Publication is NOT a requirement for students in the PhD program at Nova's School Computing and Information Science (SCIS). It is, however, encouraged.

 

Re: Re: Re: Question for Nova Students Past and Present

Jim is exactly right - my comments apply only to the school of business (SBE).

Regards - Andy

 

Re: Re: Re: Re: Question for Nova Students Past and Present

If you are looking at a PhD in terms of getting (as opposed to having) a position in Academia - getting published is very much in the "have-to-do" category. You will be asked at every turn "Have you been published?"

Which neatly segues into a discussion re: the "LPU".

 

Thanks

For your input everyone!!