Excelsior Accepted my NA Credits, But....

Yes I sure did.

Which is good cause I had almost all As and one B.

 

A MBA is not usually an acceptable credential for a teaching position. There is a thread about this on one of the distance ed. boards. I wish I could remember where, or I would link it for you. Perhaps one of the other members here recalls the thread in question and could point it out.

 

Were those the only credits Excelsior accepted from your 120 BSBA degree from CalCoast???

 

They were the only ones that they wanted to review. They wouldn't take the classes that didn't have a letter grade due to transfer or credit by exam. My impression was that they were glad to review any course as long as they had letter grades.

 

One more question. Did any of the CCU was considered upper level? thanks!

 

Yes they did. They went by the course number, from what I can tell.

 

Why did you decide to go for the BLS and not a 2nd BA in Business. I wonder if Excelsior would take the NA credits for the upper level business component of their Business degrees.

 

I know that this is a zombie thread brought back to life, but I was reading through the older posts and saw this:

Something didn't ring quite right about that. Harvard calls its b-school "Harvard Business School", not "Harvard Graduate School of Business". HBS also only offers one degree at the Masters level, the MBA.

So I googled Mr. Click. It turns out his name is Rick Click, and he has apparently had a long, successful career as a C-level IT executive and author of books on outsourcing. But I think he is playing a bit fast and loose with the facts when he supplies his biography to other folks. Either that, or he has been a victim of some really bad editing. Just about every profile of Rick Click on the Internet has a different version of his educational history, but I think I've sussed out what degrees he really holds.

1. He definitely holds a BS from California Coast University. It's mentioned in almost every profile of him.
2. Mr. Click does have an MBA, but I don't think it's from Harvard. I am pretty sure that it is also from CCU. The press release his most recent employer put out announcing his hiring mentions his MBA, but does not mention Harvard at all.
3. I believe that Mr. Click attended one of Harvard Business School's residential on-campus executive education programs, most likely the Program for Leadership Development. This is a semester-long residential program, but does not grant a degree. Interestingly enough, HBS will grant you "alumni status" if one completes the PLD and participates in ten more days of executive education within 5 years. I don't know if Mr. Click has alumni status or not.
4. One of Mr. Click's published biographies mentions he was pursuing a PhD at Walden, but I only saw that singular mention.

Does any of this matter? Probably not. Mr. Click seems to be a very talented tech executive, and would most likely have done pretty well for himself with no degree at all. But it smacks of dishonesty to see so many different versions of one's academic biography around the web, especially the one that TCord1964 quoted, which I'll repeat here to emphasize the weasel phrasing:

That is a spectacular run-on sentence. I think it *should* read:

"He is a graduate of California Coast University, where he earned a Masters of Business Administration degree. He also earned a Professional Masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business."

But of course, there is no Harvard Graduate School of Business, and Harvard Business School doesn't have a Professional Masters degree. So is Rick Click an academic fraud, or a victim of poor editing? And why did I waste so much time on this?