Unaccredited Black/Ethnic Colleges, How do Employers view these degrees?

How are BS and MBA's From Unaccredited Ethnic Colleges viewed???

 

I'm not sure what an 'unaccredited ethnic college' is. Could you give us some examples?

Here in California we have every 'ethnic' on Earth and twelve other planets. Half the people on the street speak gibberish. A few have tentacles. There are a number of state-approved schools that cater primarily to particular ethnic groups. Several CA-approved schools have been started by Chinese immigrants in particular (no tentacles, but they do eat thousand year old eggs).

I haven't noticed that any ethnic favoritism, at least in the circles that I travel in. Unaccredited schools generally aren't as widely accepted as accredited schools. How much recognition they do receive depends largely on their reputation and their credibility within their niche field. That seems to cut right across ethnicity.

 

Can you give an example? Then we could view the college website and give you some reaction based on a real situation, rather than speculation.

 

Re: Re: Unaccredited Black/Ethnic Colleges, How do Employers view these degrees?

Some would say that CULA (City University Los Angeles) qualifies an an unaccredited ethnic (African-American) college. Recently many of it's worthless degrees have been purchased by east Asians.

I think it's fair to say that a degree from CULA is regarded with well deserved contempt.

CULA's top administrators are all presumably Black, since they graduated from "Black" undergraduate colleges

Chancellor and University President
Henry L. N. Anderson, LL.D., L.H.D., Ph.D., D.D., (MFCC)
B.S.Ed. (Cheyney University of Pennsylvania)
M.A.R. (Yale University, New Haven)
Ed.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)

Special Assistant to President
Margie N. Johnson, Ph.D.
B.S. (Prairie View A&M University)
M.S. (Indiana University)
Ph.D. (Texas Woman's University)

Vice President for Student Services
Brenda I. Keaton
B.A. (Cheyney University of Pennsylvania)
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One thing I especially find charming about CULA is that

"CULA offers all degree levels, in most majors/faculties ...whether you find that degree title listed or not!" "http://www.cula.edu/overvw.htm"

In other words, they don't care that they don't even have faculty in a field, they'll grant a degree anyway.

 

Warguns,

Just curious ... Do you think a degree from this school could help a person get a teaching job at other black schools?

Roscoe

 

It just so happens I know something about this, having attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, one of the oldest Black colleges in America. The answer is ABSOLUTELY NOT. Those the run REAL BLACK COLLEGES have nothing but contempt for a place like CULA.

 

Historically Black Schools & Unaccredited Degrees

This is rather interesting. I graduated from a historically black college, Oakwood College, in Huntsville, Alabama. Oakwood was established by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1896 as largely a trade school for blacks since the good "Christian" white Seventh-day Adventists, didn't want blacks in their schools.

Like most schools, it has had its missteps. However, it is doing quite well now. It is ranked among the top ten undergraduate institutions in America that prepare black students for medical school. The vast majority of Oakwood's pre-med grads get into med schools. For more info on this, you may want to check out the web site for The United Negro College Fund.

Anyway, Oakwood does not hire professors with unaccredited degrees. In their Religion and Theology Department, there is a professor, Lance Shand, who was hired with a Master of Arts degree then went to an an unaccredited school to earn a doctorate. Oakwood refuses to acknowledge his doctorate. Historically black schools are often viewed as academically inferior in some circles. I think they have to be especially careful not to feed that misperception in their hiring.

 

I would characterize this (note that I'm not black) more generally. Those that run or teach at REAL COLLEGES generally have nothing but contempt for almost all unaccredited schools and this is as it should be if we hope to have any faith in the quality of our higher educational system.

 

It's a matter of quality assurance

Well said, Bill. It is a matter of quality assurance. Of course, you've probably just started a new "accredited" versus "unaccredited" warl

 

David: Well put. I think any reputable institution which labors under a perceived social disadvantage is going to be exceptionally careful not to cause credential problems for itself. I wonder if, among their host of lies, many mills use the "race card" to fend off deserved criticism? I would imagine that such criticism in this instance would come first and most fiercely from legitimate HBCs, who have an inheritance to protect which was won with difficulty in the first place. Janko