Westford acquisition of Acacia (NA), USA

Edel - that's "noble" in German. Does the degree come with a title - maybe someone revived an extinct Herzogtum (dukedom) somewhere in the Black Forest? Along with the degree, it'd be a pretty good value at $7,500. Definitely, the Dukedom-plus-degree award would be a SUPER wallhanger!

Not quite as exciting as my favourite German machine, though - the BMW K-1600 6-cylinder motorcycle. It costs around $30K. But that bike (and its lady owner) are another story, for another time. For now, you can see one here. https://www.bmw-motorrad.ca/en/models/tour/k1600gt.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7-H04ZPRgQMVwQIGAB2JVAWPEAAYASAAEgJnafD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#/section-highlights-of-the-k-1600-gt

 

It's also a prefix for steel that denotes it as "high quality" - e.g. stainless. Maybe you get a set of Cutco knives with the degree.

 

Don't think so -- but you might get them from these, our finest Canadian Culinary Arts schools. https://www.coursecompare.ca/best-culinary-schools-in-canada/ We have good schools of many kinds here - mostly at comparatively reasonable prices - but they haven't money to throw around. This is Canada, eh? You get your degree - and if you're lucky, a little something.

Yikes! A full set of Cutco knives is $2,000 to $3,000 on Amazon.ca ! Maybe just four steak knives --- $299. And only for students who graduate with a 4.0 GPA...

 

Cutco is an infamous MLM. They might be cheaper if you were to find a local distributor. I'm not positive about that, but it would make sense. A lot of things on Amazon are super cheap, but a lot also have a pretty hefty markup.

 

Interesting concept.

I wonder how this works practically. Do you pay your fees and then get reimbursed at the end of each semester? Or do you not pay until after you've passed your courses?

 

A bit OT, but I feel a mini-rant coming on....

I hate grades. Especially for adults. I think they're meaningless. As an instructor, it is the thing I hate the most. Making minute (and inaccurate) distinctions among complex beings is wildly absurd. And useless. If you're a project manager with 10 years of experience, it matters not at all if your GPA in your MBA was a 3.75 or a 3.5. Anyone who is making something of that distinction is looking in the wrong place.

When you're first coming out of school, there's not a lot to indicate your future potential. A new grad's GPA might have some use. But after that, no, not really.

Most of life is pass/fail. There are often gradations of fail. (A certain Mr Hall down in Georgia is learning of that, seeing his felonies turned into misdemeanors.) But pass? Not frequently. You either succeed or you do not. An exception to this is performance management, were companies and organizations create a similarly artificial grading system for their employees. These are almost universally loathed--by both employees and their supervisors--and for good reason.

At Regents, we didn't have grades, although they recorded them in transfer. Exams were pass/fail. At National, we hade a traditional grading system. At Union, no grades or credit hours (back then). At Leicester, a numerical grading system, but the reality was it was pass/fail with a few "with distinctions" here and there.

IMO, putting grades on adults falls into that critical thinking fallacy called "distinctions without differences."