Do you have any pet peeves related to education? One of mine is people posting about earning unaccredited degrees (LinkedIn, FB, etc.). I saw someone's post today about earning at master's degree at UTH Florida University. The other is people putting ABD behind their names on LinkedIn or their email signatures. It's either you have a doctorate or you don't. There's no such degree as ABD.
My Spanish is so-so, but it looks like they have a license from Florida and don't claim bogus accreditation or that they hold accreditation when they don't. I can live with that too, because it's not misleading. What gets me, though, is when people put "PhD (c)" to indicate candidate status rather than having completed the degree. That strikes me as disingenuous.
I am definitely interested to discuss listing candidate status. It seems very common among PhD, DBA, and JD students. I occasionally see it on someone's signature line for an MBA. My education pet peeve is people who treat LinkedIn like it's Facebook when listing their education. I see people who don't want to less details and so they use things like "Nunya Business '99". If people don't want to say what schools or organizations they are tied to they should just list it as "private", because the popular alternatives look childish.
I'm okay with people putting Ph.D. Candidate in their profile description or somewhere of that sort. However, putting John Q. Public, Ph.D. (c) or John Q. Public, ABD is pitiful, IMO.
I sometimes see in my feed that a connection has liked a post from someone announcing how happy and proud they are that they "graduated" from a particular "school". A "school" that I've done a full exposé on before as being the absolute most obvious example of a diploma mill that anyone has ever seen. Things that make me facepalm while browsing LinkedIn: - Multiple schools listed, but no degrees nor even years or coursework listed. - The same degree listed two or even three times. - A 1-page easay for a headline. Maniac Craniac, NES Moderator - DegreeInfo User - Poster - Founder of the Maniac Craniac User Account - Spam Exterminator - Banner of Trolls - Forum Content Writer - Video Game Enthusiast - Replier - Volunteer Staff Member - Editor of This Post - Education Cheapo - Actually Kinda Charming in His Own Way - Comic Relief - Aspiring Trillionare
Under their Education section on LinkedIn, this person included schools they never attended merely because they were offered admission:
Right. Not cool. But it could be worse: (1) Did they list a couple of dozen schools that rejected them? (2) Did they list a page of employers they applied to - but were not hired? (3) Do they have 10 or more Associate Degrees from the same College? (We've actually seen that, I think.)
Yeah. We have. Aric W. Hall. Here are the threads: https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?threads/is-there-such-a-thing-as-to-many-degrees.40451/#post-412179 http://www.degreeinfo.com/general-distance-learning-discussions/27898-your-favorite-dodgy-resume-2.html http://www.degreeinfo.com/off-topic-discussions/42230-need-help-finding-more-degrees-than-thermostat-thread.html His website is down, but his Linked-in profile lists his degrees. 10 are Associate degrees from one college - and he has several others. About 17 Associate degrees in all.
By this person's logic you should put down all the employers you interviewed with but never took a position with.
