NCA Grants 'American Public University System' Candidacy Status

Or you could do your DL MS in Meteorology at Mississippi State University or the University of Melbourne and write _The Effect of Weather Upon Civil War Battles_ and other such authoritative works on the role of the weather in history.

 

Re: Re: Re: Ted, DUDE!!!!

Actually, that should have been "as of 05-28-05" and not "05-28-03." And, besides, it's now living on page 4 as of 05-31-05. So, I now tell you that regardless of what page it might be living at any given point in time, it will always be living here: http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19467

 

Ted,

Or write a dissertation over the history of Impact Weather Service ( a private weather forcasting outfit in Houston) . That was the subject of my dissertation had I stayed at NCU. They (Impact Weather Service) provide weatherforcasting for aviation and radio outlets ( Our NPR affliate- KUHF-88.7). I have too much information now to change subjects for my dissertation. I guess a journal article about Impact Weather could be in the offing. Time will tell.

 

Thank you Ted.

This would surely be the ultimate way to fly. I just don't know if I have it in me to do two Ph.Ds. Just getting through Statistcs at NCU was tough enough for me.

This is the great thing about DL though... you get choices.

 

Ted,

Second thought. I was seriously considering the Broadcast Meterology Program ( I was in it in the Fall of 1994, but my thesis really got out of control, so I had to drop out), but with my teaching at two schools and working on my PhD (plus working as a librarian at NASA), it is just too much. I am also trying to race (running) again, so I have too many things on my plate. Maybe in the future.

 

Speaking of which, what was the history of hurricane/tornado prediction technology? I recently saw a television documentary on same - I have some vague memory that the development of such technology was aided by the fact that the people developing same were hit by two back-to-back tornados/hurricanes.

 

Hi Tireman.

You know it! I admire the road you travelled to get to your Ph.D. in History program. I never really thought about AMU until Ted (thank you Ted) posted some good info.

I'm with you. This is a field that fascinates me. And the area of study I'm looking at actually helps me with my job. It also seems exciting.

Thank you for your advice. I'm very grateful.

 

Statistics is always a bite. I even struggled to get a C out of MC 518: Applied Statistical Proceeses at City University in Tacoma, Wahington in the Spring of 1991.

I've always thought that the perfect entrepreneurial opportunities for history majors were used boookstores and self-publishing businesses. Even if one can't bring onesself to part with ANY of one's books in one's own lifetime, out of consideration of the well-being of one's family after one's death, one should write up a business plan on how to transform that library of 5,000 history books in the basement into an online bookstore (assuming, of course, that none of your kids are PhD Historians who would want the old book collection for their inheritance share). And, of course, if you like history and you like to eat, you could decide on your favorite historic time period and go to www.amazon.com and www.bookfinder.com and start collecting such period piece cookbooks. That accomplished, you could use family and friends as victims to try out your new-found skills in applied culinary history. Those dishes that pass muster (or at least don't kill too many of your victims) go into your self-published historic cookbook.

 

C.Novick,


Thanks. My road has been long and hard. I remember clearly back in 1998 when I moved back from North Carolina to Texas that I had limited job opportunities for someone with a MA in history. I worked at Jiffy Lube( Yes, that is correct), Luby's( cafeteria..I still have the ingredient book), and Firestone. I learned how to make it outside of academia and that will never change. I worked for Firestone for three years and can run a store if I ever have the want to go back. ( There is a two week management school they run which I attended and passed) I can change your oil, change your tires and fix you a hot meal. Who says that I didnt learn a trade. (lol). Sometimes I wished it would have been easier, but it just didnt work out that way. History is something that I love and adore. Librarianship pays the bills and allows me to live. Strange but true.

 

AMU conversation today.....nothing binding of course but speculation was by 2007 RA status. I asked about how the transistion would take place for enrolled students and the respose was "If you finish your degree requirements under RA then it should be an RA degree".

However, would that still be possible, finishing, say half of your degree under DETC and the other half under RA......I wonder if that's ever been done....this might be a question for Guru John Bear!

The Ph.D program???? Well I put in a hard sell for it but the response was more or less along the lines of "We have our hands full with getting RA and title IV stuff in order but your responses are welcomed and seriously considered"

I just hope they can do it, they seemed very aware of the shortage within the U.S. of an online doctoral program in History.

Maybe we can become the "pressure salient"
Best, Gavin

 

Indeed. What you do there, my good man, is build up a list of all them Serengeti wildebeests at DegreeInfo.com wanting their Distance Learning PhD degrees in Military Studies from American Military University. Having thusly proven demand, you force them to open the doc programs.