Disingenuous advertising

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  1. OlgaJay

    OlgaJay New Member

    Strayer disingenuous in advertising

    In an ad that Strayer University placed in The Examiner newspaper (WashDC) on Oct. 30, 2006, the school implied that its MSCHE accreditation placed it in the same league as American University, Cornell, Penn State and the University of Maryland.

    Whoa. The real story is that MSCHE accreditation merely places Strayer in the same league as the Dominican House of Studies (48 students), Potomac College (252 students), Baltimore International College (501 students) and the Delaware College of Art and Design (151 students).

    The important issue is whether or not the school’s business degrees are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). All the “big name” schools have this accreditation; Strayer does not.
     
  2. aic712

    aic712 Member

    "The important issue is whether or not the school’s business degrees are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). All the “big name” schools have this accreditation; Strayer does not."

    And it never will. Strayer is a teaching university and does not conduct research, a requirement of AACSB. Does that make it substandard? No.

    If anything, they could apply for ACBSP, which is also very legitimate (CHEA recognized).

    They are well-respected here in Northern VA, and have been around for quite a while longer than most of the other for profits, and are seemingly more concerned with quality than some of their competitors.
     
  3. carlosb

    carlosb New Member

    What specific government/real-world license or professional certification requires AACSB?
     
  4. aic712

    aic712 Member

    None.

    Some require ABET, APA accreditation in "specialized" fields. Most govt jobs call for the degree to be "accredited" which can mean RA or NA.
     
  5. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    I would consider the Dominican House of Studies more prestigious.
     
  6. carlosb

    carlosb New Member

    The AACSB does NOT require that business faculty with business degrees have AACSB accredited ones.

    If this accrediation is so important, WHY?
     
  7. carlosb

    carlosb New Member

    Please show me where in the AACSB accrediting guildelines where a Strayer degree would disqualify a person from teaching at an AACSB school.

    I have read the entire AACSB guidelines and cannot find such a passage.
     
  8. foobar

    foobar Member

    You're right. There's nothing in the guidelines. But as someone that has sat on hiring committees at an AACSB school, it would be rough going for a graduate of a domestic, non-AACSB school seeking a tenure-track professorial-rank position.

    I have seen such graduates get hired as adjuncts or
    for full-time lecturer positions, so it is true that it is possible to teach with a Strayer degree at an AACSB institution.

    I've also seen NOVA PhDs teaching at AACSB schools with professorial rank. However, in many of the cases I've seen, they were tenured prior to the school seeking AACSB accreditation. One other way this happens is that a "non-traditional" PhD is hired as a lecturer and both distinguish themselves in the classroom AND publish acceptable research. This is rare because lecturers have higher teaching loads than assistant professors and simply don't have the time to perform research.

    Bottom line - non-AACSB degrees are not well accepted at AACSB schools for regular faculty positions. Anyone with a goal of teaching at an AACSB institution would be well advised to seek an AACSB-accredited doctorate.
     

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