Would an MLS qualify me to teach college?

One more option to consider:

http://www.cjonline.uc.edu/

 

The MLS and the MLA (or ALM) are pretty much the same animal: Master of Liberal Studies versus Master of Liberal Arts.

You're quite right in that neither is available in a CJ concentration from those schools I mentioned. I wasn't claiming they were, just that in the abstract, I'd rather have the least prestigious of Masters from the most prestigious school than the most prestigious of Masters from the least prestigious school.

 

This is a very interesting concept.

In my opinion, this degree would have limited utility, but would serve a few niches:

1). Give the Beltway Area learner who loves learning for its own sake access to some of the finest academic minds in the region;

2). Provide a fine qualification for a professorship position at a small liberal arts college or a community college; or

3). Give a professor who's already entrenched in junior academia in the Beltway Area (but sans doctorate) a part-time, no-need-to-quit-and-then-start-over-again-in-four-years opportunity to punch that "doctorate card", get the doctorate pay, and have a shot at tenure or a more senior position. Universities love to call faculty "doctor" so-and-so, even if they have a lesser doctorate.

One the downside, I can't imagine any benefit to the person trying to break into academia at a research university. None whatsoever. Competing head-to-head with PhDs, that degree's title will just raise too many eyebrows and furrow too many brows.