History PhD Distance Learning?

Been to that CC. Liked the faculty quite a bit.

 

Our paths have almost intersected then. By the way, we have multiple accounting positions coming available. You finish up that masters from London, please throw in a CV here. I'll definitely be an advocate for you.

 

I love history so I would not do it for the money but for pleasure. If the PhD is from a good school like Universtiy of Leicester, it still has good value. I know few people that teach full time at business schools with CPAs and MBAs and PhDs in areas that are not business related like History, for AACSB standards, your PhD does not have to be in the teaching field but only need a number of credits in the teaching field and publications in the area. So, technically a CPA with few publications in Accounting and a PhD in History would do the job.
In any case, a lot of these fields are for personal development, UNISA is a good place for this due to the low price so a PhD from this school would be my first choice for this purpose.
To the OP, if your goal is to teach history, I think you have a better shot getting a teaching credential for high school or elementary as there a lot more opportunities at this level than University or college.

 

As you say, that is technically (and in some cases, practically) true. A PhD is more about the research knowledge and techniques than the discipline knowledge, so it's true, so long as you had a masters or 18 grad credit hours in accounting (or 15, depending on which region you're in), you could teach accounting and get on the tenure track. Now I've been told (though of course have no personal experience whatsoever) that history PhD research is a somewhat different animal from the kind of research they use in the social sciences or business, so it might not be as good of a fit there, but again, I don't know that except from what I heard a colleague say. The only real issue would be running the gauntlet of the HR department, where they often have those questions up front about "Do you have a PhD in accounting or a closely-related field" or "Do you have a PhD in Accounting from an AACSB or international equivalent university?" and unless you click "Yes", your application is thrown out and often you can't reapply without fast talking someone into reopening it for you. If you click "Yes", on the other hand, then you have some explaining to do if they consider you, but notice the PhD's in history. There will be some "What the bleep?" comments there once they go through CVs.

We do have a person here who got her PhD in psychology and now teaches marketing here. That's not as far afield as many might think, psychology from marketing, but she did have to go through one of those AACSB bridge programs to work her way in. She's very good, by the way, and we're fortunate to have her.

So I could see it happening, the way you say, but it would take some finesse.