Superintendent with Breyer State "degree" taking his lumps

Halloween is a good time for such activities. They could all dress up like an angry mob and walk through the streets without attracking undue attention. Plus, you get the benefit of that whole "Boston Tea Party" thing.

 

It might be worth noting that over time that newly minted doctors tend to be less interested in promoting their title.

I've had the opportunity to conduct approximately 1,100 peer reviews over a largely stable group of 100 college-level instructors during the last four years.

I've informally observed that completion of a doctorate is often trumpted throughout the online classroom and syllabus in the fashion of medieval heraldry, at the beginning. However, over time the doctoral title tends to retreat to a simple mention in the email signature.

Now to the point, perhaps there is some therapeutic effect of telling everybody that you have a doctorate that one personally knows varies in some way(s) from a standard doctorate. Could the holder of the unaccredited BSU doctorate be trying to convince others and him/herself?

For what it's worth...

Dave

 

I am quite ashamed to say that I was also caught up in the St Regis debacle; but I woke up and smelled the coffee, and decided to enroll at a proper brick and mortar university. Completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Law (speciality Labour Law) last year, and commencing MPhil in Labour Law in January 2009. Hoping to ocntinue in this field up to PhD level.

Unfortunately there is no substitute for hard work and nose to the books....... and I sincerely hope that those out there still thinking their bogus degrees are worth something, realize that the fact that they have a bogus degree actually says something about their own self being....... I had to come to that point of realization myself first. Thank God I did, and I now hold my head high.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas, have a lovely festive season, and I sincerely hope all your endeavours come true in 2009.

 

Hi Len - Here's what I think. There's a difference between shame and guilt. Guilt is about something that you've DONE while shame is about something that you ARE. If you did something that has made you feel guilty then that makes you like the rest of us humans. If you feel the need then you can atone in some way. However, if you are, by nature, a terrible person then maybe your shame is justified. Perhaps the question is, what are you doing now? Something good? Something bad? Something questionable? I've found that it often comes down to these two questions: How do you make your money? and Who are your friends?

Out here we're having our first decent snowstorm. They're saying that it will be 12-14 inches. The farm is buttoned down. Tomorrows b-ball game has already been cancelled. When there is a new layer of snow on the ground it absorbs so much of the sound that the level of quiet seems profound. You can bundle up and drag that old aluminum lawn chair out into the field and just sit in the middle of all that silence. It makes me think about what it must have been like to live in western Massachusetts 300 years ago. It makes you think.

Have a Merry Christmas Len.

 

Thanks, and the same to you - I hope you have a lovely festive season!

 

After getting caught with his dubious Breyer State degree, the taxpayers are understandably upset. Now Wasser is trying to subpoena the local newspaper for the names and addresses of those taxpayers who have disparaged him on the local newspaper forums.

Original Article
http://www.app.com/article/20091015/NEWS/91015064/1004/NEWS01

Op Ed Piece on the continuing fiasco
http://www.app.com/article/20091020/OPINION01/910210319/1029/OPINION


I'm not an expert. But he's 1) a public figure 2) been disciplined for his impropriety, so what high ground is he standing on here?