Nova DBA

To clear the air, I was saying NOVA is far above most!!! - re-read my coments


Nova is more like a real school vs. some others.....

BTW, PENN is still better by 1000%

 

Actually you said, "Step above? - more like a real one vs. substandard bull sh_ _"

And how exactly does a VP of HR for a from a major 50 company measure the 1000% increase in “betterness”? Now, is that 1000% better then Nova? So would it be 5000% better then NCU? Would it only be 64.3% as good as Harvard? How does the mystery calculator work?

By the way, I was at a Toastmasters meeting and a Director of HR said she was working on an MBA from Kennedy-Western. Just because someone works in HR does not make them any smarter then a person that works in finance when it comes to school quality.

 

I'm curious to know what you told her after that!

 

I kept my mouth shut and was going to say something the next time I seen her but never did.

 

Agreed, most HR folks are in a make believe box – I’ve seen the profession tank over the past 30 years. The comment was on Nova, it is a good school –A far cry from many others.

BTW, you don’t go into HR for the money; I’d did it because of my passion for occupational labor (working with unions and business) and I sucked in accounting and finance. Additionally, my 2 cents on NCU is why waste the time on fighting road blocks vs. growing...

 

I had my PhD from Nova Southeastern University. I had to travel to Fort Lauderdale four times a year for three years to complete the course work. I spent additional two years on my dissertation. Most doctoral programs at Nova require some residencies. The rest are full-time programs.

Like someone has already pointed out, the reputation of the university hasn't always been a stellar one. At some point, it was called a degree mill, despite the fact that it has been accredited by SACS since 1972. It has never been a degree mill. Nova University (as it was called then) was a candidate for regional accreditation for about 5 years (from 1967 to 1972). The school’s reputation has improved a great deal.

Many Nova graduates are professors at top-ranked universities, including Harvard, Yale, Brown, Georgetown, and University of Maryland (College Park), etc. There is also one guy at MIT. The guy is the assistant dean for research and development (non-academic position).


List of some Nova alumni in the academia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nova_Southeastern_University_alumni

Dr. Robert Myers, Executive Vice President, Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Dr. Bernard Palchick, Vice President, Simmons University
Dr. Michael Larocco, Dean College of Business at the University of St. Francis
Dr. Dedric Carter, Assistant Dean, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. George M. Ackerman, Professor, Andrew Jackson University
Dr. Lee Baer, Professor, Harvard University
Dr. Paul Battaglia, Professor, University of Maryland
Dr. Clifford Baugh, Professor, University of Maryland
Dr. William Benoit, Professor, Plymouth State University
Dr. Carl R. Broadhurst, Professor, Campbell University
Dr. Aaron Caillouet, Professor, Troy University
Dr. Richard Caldarola, Professor, Troy University
Dr. Rickey Casey, Professor, University of the Ozarks
Dr. Charles Chekwa, Professor, Troy University
Dr. William Conklin, Professor, Brockport State University
Dr. Daurice Cox, Professor, Boston University
Dr. Noni Bohonak, Professor, University of Maryland
Dr. Laurie Dahlin, Professor, Worcester State College
Dr. Walter F. Deal, Professor, Old Dominion University
Dr. Art Dearing, Professor, Tarleton State University
Dr. Brad Donohue, Professor, UNLV
Dr. Sheree N. Dove, Professor, Western Illinois University
Dr. William Farrell, Professor, Monroe College
Dr. Michael Fathi, Professor, Georgia Southwestern State University
Dr. Victoria Figiel, Professor, Troy University
Dr. Michael Fisher, Professor, Alaska Pacific University
Dr. Larry Flegle, Professor, Andrew Jackson University
Dr. Jay Fleisher, Professor, University of Miami
Dr. Laura Frost, Professor, Walsh College
Dr. Albert Fundaburk, Professor, Bloomsburg University
Dr. Charles J. Golden, Professor, University of Florida
Dr. Grace Greenberg, Professor, Lynn University
Dr. Jeffery Groom, Professor, Florida International University
Dr. Bill Hahn, Professor, Southeastern University
Dr. Kurt Heidtman, Professor, Franklin Pierce University
Dr. Katherine E Hyatt, Professor, Appalachian State University
Dr. Plummer A. Jones, Jr., Professor, East Carolina University
Dr. Tejendra Kalia, Professor, Worcester State College
Dr. William J. Kelleher, Professor, University of Florida
Dr. Stephanie Kelly, Professor, University of Indianapolis
Dr. Jeff Konin, Professor, University of South Florida
Dr. Donald F. Kuratko, Professor, Indiana University
Dr. Richard Kustin, Professor, Southern Connecticut State University
Dr. John E. Lewis, Professor, Pace University
Dr. Charles Lipinski, Professor, Marywood University
Dr. Kristie J. Loescher, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Laurie L. Lopez, Professor, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Dr. Simon Moore, Professor, Bentley University
Dr. Ben Mulvey, Professor, University of Miami
Dr. James Murphy, Professor, Troy University
Dr. Karen F. Nails, Professor, Bethune-Cookman University
Dr. William Nance, Professor, University of Utah
Dr. Rodney Oudan, Professor, Worcester State College
Dr. Manuel Paris, Professor, Yale University
Dr. Steven Poris, Professor, Touro College
Dr. Loreen Powell, Professor, Bloomsburg University
Dr. William H. Price, Professor, University of Texas at Permian Basin
Dr. Orlando Rivero, Professor, Carlos Albizu University
Dr. Greg Ruediger, Professor, Troy University
Dr. Komlanvi, K. Sewodo, Professor, Monroe College
Dr. Edward Sherbert, Professor, University of South Carolina
Dr. Helen Simon, Professor, Florida International University
Dr. Linda Carter Sobell, Professor, University of Florida
Dr. A. Blair Staley, Professor, Bloomsburg University
Dr. Michael F. Sunich, Professor, Troy University
Dr. Gabriel Suciu, Professor, University of Miami
Dr. Phyllis Sweeney, Professor, Michigan State University
Dr. Geoffrey Tremont, Professor, Brown University
Dr. Kimberly Burghardt Sutter, Professor, Georgetown University
Dr. Herbert Lee Washington, Professor, Troy University
Dr. James Whitlock, Professor, Troy University
Dr. Steve L. Williams, Professor, Austin Peay State University
Dr. Bill Williamson, Professor, St. John's University

More about Nova: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Southeastern_University

 

Add to the list Dr. Kim Metcalf, Asst. Professor, MGH Institute of Health Professions.

 

I've heard that too, especially from Nova degree holders... ;-)

 

Some feedback from an NSU alum

Adam - I'm a 1996 graduate of the DBA program at NSU. I subsequently returned in 2002 and 2008 to finish additional concentrations.

Yes, NSU's program is limited residency, not DL. I very much liked face to face contact - with peers and faculty.

Yes, NSU is probably a step up from other DL programs in acceptability, but still a step below traditional full-time programs. NSU is pursuing AACSB accredition and they have a legitimete chance to get it in the next few years. They have an on-campus, full-time, research active faculty of 40 or so. As best I understand it, none of the DL programs talked about here have this. Further, NSU has a for-real research library.

Yes, the NSU DBA program will be increasingly difficult to gain admission to. NSU intends to lower enrollment from nearly 500 DBA students a few years back to around 100 going forward.

If I were pursuing a part-time doctoral program in business today - I'd look first to see if there was a part-time program near by (for example, Wayne State in Detroit just added one that would have been perfect for me if it existed 10 years ago!). NSU would be my second choice.

Has NSU served me well? I'm currently a tenured prof (and department head) at an ACBSP accredited school. Might I have done better with a degree from an AACSB school? Perhaps, but in 1992 when I started - there weren't any choices.

Regards - Andy

 

How many years does it typically take to attain AACSB accreditation? A school that I was once interested in, Troy, is a candidate for AACSB, but that has been posted on their website for the last couple of years. I think that they'll eventually get it being a state school.

The problem I've always had with Nova is that their faculty consists of a large proportion of their own graduates.

 

AACSB can take 5 or more years.

As for NSU faculty being grads of NSU, that has been the case in the past. They increasingly are hiring non-NSU grads, however

Regards - Andy