Steve's ABD Completion Update

Discussion in 'Business and MBA degrees' started by SteveFoerster, Jun 8, 2022.

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  1. wmcdonald

    wmcdonald Active Member

    There are a number of folks who have investigated Nigeria from a number of perspectives. With a former doctoral student, we published the following study:
    Teamwork in Health Care Services Delivery in Nigeria: A Mixed Methods Assessment of Perceptions and Lived Experiences of Pharmacists in a Tertiary Hospital: Integrated Pharmacy Research and Practice 2022:11 33–45, January, 2022

    It may surprise you that soon to be Dr. Forester has founded a university with a mission of service. I am really proud of his work, and taking this step!

    Finally, a group here in the US is attempting now to start a university in the Biafran Region of Nigeria. Headed by an individual who is from that area, now residing in NC. He wants to see his people gain some ground after years of brutalization.

     
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  2. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

    Turnover is usually a problem at colleges that don't have tenure-track professors or at least full-time professors. I scanned the list of Baker College faculty, and hardly any of them have doctoral degrees. Many of them only have a bachelor's or associate's, but it's fitting since Baker is more of a vocational college.
     
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  3. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    The ones teaching graduate courses and overseeing dissertations do, of course, but yes, many of their departments are vocational.
     
  4. wmcdonald

    wmcdonald Active Member

    You have many strengths!
     
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  5. AsianStew

    AsianStew Moderator Staff Member

    Overall, I think it's a good change pivoting to another institution for their ABD. Good luck and have fun on this educational journey...
     
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  6. TEKMAN

    TEKMAN Semper Fi!

    There are over 300 Ph.D holders, the majority of them from Capella University and Walden University.

    URL: https://www.baker.edu/wp-content/uploads/faculty-list.pdf
     
  7. sanantone

    sanantone Well-Known Member

  8. Xspect

    Xspect Member non grata

    Any updates on your journey at Manhattanville College
     
  9. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

  10. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Still at it. Finishing winter term today.
     
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  11. Tireman 44444

    Tireman 44444 Well-Known Member


    Get it done, Sir.
     
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  12. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    So how does this work? You defend your thesis before you've written it? I've heard Stanford does it that way.
     
  13. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    Some schools require the prospective candidate to defend the proposal.
     
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  14. Rich Douglas

    Rich Douglas Well-Known Member

    I like Marina Bear's story about her dissertation defense at Vanderbilt. When her advisor introduced her to the examining committee, he said, "Marina Bear is here to defend her dissertation." Marina interjected, "I'm not here to defend it. I'm here to explain it."
     
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  15. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    So you go through TWO oral defenses?
     
  16. wmcdonald

    wmcdonald Active Member

    The standard process for the Dissertation is first to complete a proposal, which is presented, and defended. One approved the writing of the dissertation begins, and at the end, a formal Oral Defense for the entire project is completed. And yes, there are people who get to the oral defense who are rejected, with changes required, and come back and do it again! I've chaired 50+ at different institutions, and this is fairly standard for PhDs. For other professional doctorates with Applied Dissertations (DHA, DHEd and others) most require an oral defense as well.
     
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