Has anyone seen this yet? PhD in Higher Ed. http://www.phoenix.edu/online_and_campus_programs/degree_programs_description.aspx?progversion=1722&locationid=-1 I also saw they are going to be doing a PhD in I/O Psych.
Did not say anything was wrong with that, it is just interesting since they are far from a Research Oriented school. Spoken from the point of view of a UoP grad.
Maybe Randell was confused by the thumbs down and eek face symbols.... Anyway, they're already offering doctoral programs, so this doesn't strike me as a very big deal. -=Steve=-
Since you received a Bachelors followed by a Masters from UoP, are you sure you're adequately prepared to embark on a DBA from Argosy? The thumbs down also got me.
The title doesn't matter, but the school and its scholarly history does. Where UoP sits on that factor I'll leave to others. One could make an argument either way. I'd rather have a non-Ph.D. designation from a good school than a Ph.D. designation from one without a scholarly record--and one without an intent to build one. Get the degree you want from the school you want and worry little about whether it is a Ph.D. or some other doctoral designation. Finally, know that UoP is a huge player in nontraditional higher learning. It will be interesting to see if they change their emphasis now that they're in the Ph.D. business.
Just out of curiosity, do you have a guess about the telltale signs that might be an early indicator that they were moving more forcefully into the realm of doctoral studies?
U. of Phoenix Doctoral Degrees Phoenix currently offers seven doctoral degrees, which appear to focus on leadership and mangement in business, education and healths professions. Since Phoenix requires a certain amount of career experience for admission, these would be application based, rather than research based degrees. They would be most suited for those wanting to advance within a chosen career, rather than someone seeking a tenure-track faculty position at a unviersity. These are the degrees: 1. Doctor of Business Administration 2. Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership 3. Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership with a Specialization in Information Systems and Technology 4. Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership 5. Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership/Curriculum and Instruction 6. Doctor of Philosophy in Higher Education 7. Doctor of Health Administration
Rebranding is one of those terms that has cropped up in the last decade or so. Branding means to link a name, trademark or service mark with a product or service. However, rebranding can mean both to assign new name, etc. to a product or service, or it can mean to reposition an existing brand. That is, rebranding can mean to make the brand mean something else. Consider that brands have multidimensional properties, such as brand attitude (i.e., consumer's perspective) and brand personality (i.e., manufacturer's perspective); in which case, to rebrand we would start by defining the manufacturer's perspective and try to shape the consumer's perspective toward that end. I realize this is slightly different than what you'll read in Wikipedia, but I apologize for not updating that page yet... Dave Source: http://mbafaq.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-is-rebranding.html
