There are some fully accredited colleges and university that can assist
folks in completing unfinished degrees under a "life experience" or
multidisciplinary type of program. Fortunately I live near universities
which offer such programs. Between my nearly 100 hours of journalism
related studies and several hundred hours of documented continuing education
studies related to occupational safety and health (not to mention
photography and graphic arts studies, tho' I just did anyway), there's
probably some kinda oddball degree buried in my skull.
Can anyone recommend a surgeon to ferret out a degree that won't require me
to sit in a classroom? I actually have nightmares about being in school
again. Arghhh!
But as John warns, I know of at least a couple of former journalists who
lost their jobs because they lied about academic experience on their
resumes. Personally I believe the last thing a journalist needs is a degree
in anything except history. Studying journalism for more than a semester or
two is like an artist majoring in paintbrushes.
Lex
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From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Count Spamula bites again
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 12:06:33 +0000
At 15:46 8/12/00 , John Hudson wrote:
>Got one recently from the "U of M" in dialing area 305 [wherever that
>is] offering MBAs and PhD's by return mail and little money ......with
>maximum credits for life experience, no courses and no residency.
I've gotten something like this one before; it was from a place in Texas.
Sent it to the appropriate agency in Texas which started investigating the
scam. FWIW personnel departments smell these things a mile away. If it's
not from an accredited university, it's not even worth the ink used to
print it!
Worse yet are the claims of degrees never awarded. A friend saw his boss
bite the dust doing just that. He had worked there for at least a year.
When the company got suspicious and discovered he didn't have that MBA from
Stanford (nor had he ever gone to school there), they immediately locked
his office and he was out the door in less than an hour. It's truly
amazing what is claimed by some applicants on their resumes and even more
amazing is the look of surprise when they get nailed for it (doesn't
*everyone* do this? NOPE).
-- John
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