Fool exposed at NCU

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by Bert Woodall, Mar 30, 2006.

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  1. Bert Woodall

    Bert Woodall New Member

    Elsewhere on this forum there is much discussion of an NCU press release that said two Learners had earned their Ed.D. in just one year. The real story is considerably less amazing.

    I'm the guy who wrote that press release about NCU's first education degrees.
    I'm the guy WHO TYPED THE WRONG YEAR in that press release and then tried to explain it rather than confirm it.
    I'm the guy who is quite rightly laboring under a bit of a cloud here at the ranch over that inexcusable mistake.

    It should have read 2004--NOT 2005.
    Drs. Peterson and Jama, by dint of much hard labor, were able to earn their Ed.D. degrees in TWO years--still a remarkable feat, though not quite as amazing as the utterly implausible one year I originally said.

    Naturally, I'm looking around for someone else--anyone else--I can blame for this horrible error, but it looks like it was mine and mine alone.

    They run a good school here at NCU and nobody just waltzes in and out of their degree programs. Ask any of our students ...

    But thanks for your interest. It's nice to know somebody reads my work.
    --Bert "Mr. Dim" Woodall
     
  2. lifelonglearner

    lifelonglearner New Member

    We all make mistakes!

    Thanks for the clarification.

    We all make mistakes. My last big one was putting the wrong fax number on a catalog registration form which was mailed to 50,000 people. That will never happen again.

    Take it easy on yourself.

    lifelonglearner
     
  3. CocoGrover

    CocoGrover New Member

    Bert: no worries, everyone makes mistakes. I once flew to a meeting in Des Moines (I lived in Charlotte at the time) for a meeting with a prospective client. I was a week early.
     
  4. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member


    No big, Burt. Everybody knows NCU is a good school.


    Have a good weekend!


    Abner
     
  5. Bill Parker

    Bill Parker New Member


    Bert - Don't sweat it. :)

    NCU is a great school. I have been enrolled since 2003. I can attest to the program.
     
  6. little fauss

    little fauss New Member

    I was once, long ago, a graphic designer working for a reprographics firm. I was part of a team of about six designers. We put together a brochure for our prized account: The United Way.

    Not exactly an account with which one wants to trifle.

    Thousands of brochures were printed and shipped to them. Major typos discovered after the fact. Oops! Deadlines blown as we scrambled to right the wrongs. Thousands of dollars in expenses for us as we reprinted, retypeset, set other production jobs on hold.

    Art Director stomped around the design studio screaming at no one in particular. Art Director soon thereafter fired.

    Loss of the plumb account. Layoffs.

    Company went bankrupt within months.

    I left design work and haven't gone back.

    One little mistake started the whole ball rolling. There surely must have been problems there anyway, or it wouldn't have gone down so fast. But still, it's remarkable how close to the brink so many companies are.

    BTW: I wasn't the guy who committed the typo sins; I don't know who did it. That's my story and I'm sticking with it. :)
     
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  7. dl_mba

    dl_mba Member

    Almost similar story with my previous tech company. Bad customer service, numerous coding issues in many projects, missing deadlines, crappy outsource company in India did substandard work resulting in millions in outstanding balalce from customers. Company went down as fast as it grew. Hundreds of layoffs in weeks. Lot of people at various levels made mistakes.
     
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