california pacific university - Need help!!!

Discussion in 'Accreditation Discussions (RA, DETC, state approva' started by JNelson467, Sep 3, 2004.

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  1. Dave Wagner

    Dave Wagner Active Member

    My apologies... I need to go in there and clean house.

    You might also consider formerly DETC UNISA's MBL and DBL with respect to low cost but high value; however, that will take a long time. Still, it will be great experience. Or you might look for an M.Phil. in South Africa that will take your California Coast degree, which will make you a step closer to getting into a doctoral program. Hope it helps.

    Note that CPU's Ph.D. will be a great use of your money, but if you see yourself teaching (or otherwise needing a regionally-accredited doctorate), it will not be as good a use of your time. Editor's note: you can always get more money but you can't get more time.

    Dave


    Dave
     
  2. ShotoJuku

    ShotoJuku New Member

    Thanks Dave, that pretty much says it all for me in my present and future needs too.
     
  3. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    One thing to add: publishing commercially isn't the same as publishing academically. For example, UMI is commercial, not academic. UMI doesn't evaluate dissertations--it accepts those from accredited schools without further review.

    Dissertations from unaccredited schools do not appear in the literature and, it would seem, their graduates seldom add to the canon after graduation.

    Hayes fits this entirely. He bought a fake Ph.D. from one degree mill, then did it again with another. Neither school supervised his work, he didn't do research in the traditional sense, etc. His writing may very well be valuable in his field, but not as an academic contribution. He wrote a book and some other stuff, but not a Ph.D.
     
  4. ShotoJuku

    ShotoJuku New Member

    Thanks Rich, this is all new territory for me regarding the publication of a dissertation via UMI or otherwise is whole new experience.

    Perhaps you could point me in the right direction for the appropriate research and as to why one cannot publish "academically" rather than "commercially" with CPU?? Thanks!
     
  5. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member

     
  6. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    I was referring to the dissertation, which isn't really reviewed and accepted as a new addition to the literature. It's more commercial than academic.

    Certainly, students studying at CPU could do academic research. I doubt many do, though. A search of Google Scholar reveals none. (13 hits, but none from authors with CPU doctorates.) They may be out there, publishing without noting the sources of their doctorates.
     

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