Problems with L.A. area unaccredited degrees?

I am a journalist working on an article about the benefits of using an accredited school for getting a graduate degree.

I'd love to interview people who have earned a degree from an unaccredited school and then had problems using it to get into grad school or earned a degree from an unaccredited grad school and had trouble using it to get a job or professional licensure.

Some aspect of this person's experience (school or job) needs to be in the Los Angeles area.

Do any of you have this sort of experience?

Thanks,

Donna G. Albrecht
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Great Job.

I have seen some students after getting Phd's from Unaccredited university (California Coast University) working as full-time faculties in Argosy University (that makes California Coast University degrees valuable). (You can do a search on the forum for more info)

Those two students can fill in your re-search.

 

manjuap: "I have seen some students after getting Phd's from Unaccredited university (California Coast University) working as full-time faculties in Argosy University (that makes California Coast University degrees valuable)."

Rich: That's not the same as cause-and-effect. Is there some reason to believe they got their positions because of their unaccredited doctorates, or were those degrees irrelevant and being listed as a courtesy?

One way of determining this is if the persons in question are teaching doctoral-level courses. Another is if they hold positions where the doctorate is normally required.

 

Donna is, I believe, spouse of frequent degreeinfo poster Mike Albrecht. (Though maybe she doesn't know he's a frequent poster -- he may tell her he's just doing something innocuous such as online betting.)

 

Yup, I'm Mike Albrecht's wife! He's the one who told me about this list and that I might find some resources here.

Yes,I'm looking for "cause and effect" stories. I'm afraid that getting an unaccredited degree so you can teach at an unaccredited school isn't terribly interesting to my readers. Now, if someone on this list got an unaccredited degree and was turned down for a teaching position at UCLA, that's a story! Perhaps someone earned a degree without realizing the school was unaccredited until they tried to use it for a professional license, grad school admission, etc.

FYI, as for whether I knew Mike posted here--who do you think gave me the idea for the story?

Best,
Donna

 

Awww, shoot. I thought I had an opportunity to play some mischief ;-)

Being turned down to teach at UCLA would be a story, IF the position required an accredited PhD. However, if the person is teaching courses that require only a Masters (which they have) and they had an unaccredited PhD, that isn't very big. What would be a big deal is if someone received tenure and taught doctoral level courses based on an unaccredited PhD (assuming a Masters degree would be insifficient to obtain tenure or teach doctoral level courses).

 

I fail to see why this would be a story - I'm sure UCLA turns down a lot of unqualified (and qualified) applicants.
Anyway, all the best on your efforts to get the mesage out that most unaccredited universities are a scam.

 

Hi Donna,

Although I doubt you can find the people you are looking for here, why not investigate the graduates of the unaccredited, state approved schools in the LA area? Surely you can find some way to get that info out of the schools (just use your journalistic charm). I am sure that everyone on this board will be interested in what you find out, even if it isn't all too surprising.

Tony