A reputable name graduated from Louisiana Baptist University

Roland S. Martin graduated with a Master's in Christian Communications from Louisiana Baptist University. This is listed on his personal web site.

He also does political commentary for CNN, "The Most Trusted Name in News." This is listed on his biography with CNN.

Do you think that this gives Louisiana Baptist University some merit?

 

There was some previous discussion about LBU & Roland S. Martin here:

http://forums.degreeinfo.com/accreditation-discussions-ra-detc-state-approval-unaccredited-schools/32080-louisiana-baptist-university.html

From what I've heard second-hand, LBU seems like a decent unaccredited school, if such a degree will meet someone's needs, great, go for it. Personally I'd always want to try for an accredited degree if at all possible, even if I don't think I'd need it to be accredited right now, just in case I need it in the future.

 

I always thought that only the brand of the university will give the person merit and not another way around. Just like Harvard University is listed in CV.

 

I'm not familiar with who Roland S. Martin is.

I thought that Fox was supposed to be the fundy network.

I do generally trust CNN's straight news coverage during major news events. All the networks are pretty good at that pure-reporting stuff and I typically channel surf between them. But I don't especially trust CNN's political commentary. It's self-serving and agenda-driven, like all political commentary.

Only if I believed that this Martin guy is an astute judge of obscure schools and treated his own personal educational decisions as somehow authoritative for me as well.

I don't think that.