Anonymous wrote:99% of people who demand that others call them "Dr." are women and POC. And I say this as a woman POC. I honestly think some people just have a huge chip on their shoulder. I work with one coworker who makes us call her "Dr. Johnson" when everyone else also has grad degrees/law degrees/doctorates and are called Jim/Bob/Lisa. It's ridiculous and we do make fun of her for it. I saw her resume come through. She got the doctorate at a low ranked state school and she made mediocre grades.

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Anonymous wrote:Just because you are the same age as this person ... it does not make you a "professional peer"... you have never had a job... you are same as a 20 something straight out of school.

Where's your online degree from? You frauds are so transparent.

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who looks up where their medical professionals attended med school?

I want a doctor from a top program, not one who went to KP School of Medicine (Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine).

Same with hiring. That's fantastic that you shelled out $$ for your doctorate, but when I see you next to an applicant with a doctorate from a not-for-profit university, they are getting picked over you.

My niece just completed her psychology degree at Shenandoah University. The level of work she was doing there was no more difficult than AP Psychology. Her practicum for graduation was the level of research you'd see at a HS science fair. Look, it's a perfectly great university, but the degree she earned from there is not on the same level as my B.S. in Psychology from Duke. She's now prepping for grad school and if she gets accepted at some of the programs to which she's applying, she's going to struggle.

I know that it isn't fair, but where you obtained the degree from does matter in the real world. Yes, having one gives you an advantage over someone without, but a UVA degree is no match for a CNU degree.

Anonymous wrote:In the federal government and federal contracting world degrees from diploma mills are increasingly common. Fed position have education requirements.
Veterans can use their benefits for-profit schools, combined with hiring preference,making it a no-brainer: why would you go to a school where you'd have to actually study, when you can get a "diploma" that checks the box without doing much work?
There may have been a stigma associated with for-profit colleges, but it seems to be gone now. People proudly announce graduations and "doctorates" from schools like Phoenix and Capella on LinkedIn and list them in online bios on federal web pages. It's sad.

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Anonymous wrote:A person who has a Ph.D. and demands to be addressed as Dr. is a jerk regardless of where they earned or bought their degree (the exception is an academic context where all Ph.D. are referred to as Dr.).

I'm the OP. The specific person I mentioned does not have an (online) PhD, it's another type of doctorate.

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who looks up where their medical professionals attended med school?

I want a doctor from a top program, not one who went to KP School of Medicine (Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine).

Same with hiring. That's fantastic that you shelled out $$ for your doctorate, but when I see you next to an applicant with a doctorate from a not-for-profit university, they are getting picked over you.

My niece just completed her psychology degree at Shenandoah University. The level of work she was doing there was no more difficult than AP Psychology. Her practicum for graduation was the level of research you'd see at a HS science fair. Look, it's a perfectly great university, but the degree she earned from there is not on the same level as my B.S. in Psychology from Duke. She's now prepping for grad school and if she gets accepted at some of the programs to which she's applying, she's going to struggle.

I know that it isn't fair, but where you obtained the degree from does matter in the real world. Yes, having one gives you an advantage over someone without, but a UVA degree is no match for a CNU degree.

Anonymous wrote:At the core- I’ll call you what I want to call you. Mr. Or Mrs. But not because I’m hating online degrees. I get that the rigor isn’t much- but the traditional higher education route(s) are closed to folks re entering the work force, hoping multiple jobs, single parents ect. Until we address that- I can respect the hustle. But I’ll call you by a Mr/Mrs/Ms pronoun

Anonymous wrote:At the core- I’ll call you what I want to call you. Mr. Or Mrs. But not because I’m hating online degrees. I get that the rigor isn’t much- but the traditional higher education route(s) are closed to folks re entering the work force, hoping multiple jobs, single parents ect. Until we address that- I can respect the hustle. But I’ll call you by a Mr/Mrs/Ms pronoun

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Anonymous wrote:An EdD can be a difficult degree to get. I watched my mom earn one. She had to change thesis advisors so that she didn't have to write a 'fourth' thesis to complete the degree, due to the many changes of course her advisor proposed. This was at a well known private university graduate program.

Oh come on. I have a PhD in organic chemistry that took 5.5 years of 60+ hour weeks and I don't ask people to call me Dr.

You think somebody with an EdD degree that studies and advances education for women in 3rd world countries should not be called Dr.? But because you can apparently make sure beer in 1 brewery is exactly the same as beer at the 2nd brewery, you are better?

Anonymous wrote:Just because you are the same age as this person ... it does not make you a "professional peer"... you have never had a job... you are same as a 20 something straight out of school.

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who looks up where their medical professionals attended med school?

I want a doctor from a top program, not one who went to KP School of Medicine (Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine).

Same with hiring. That's fantastic that you shelled out $$ for your doctorate, but when I see you next to an applicant with a doctorate from a not-for-profit university, they are getting picked over you.

My niece just completed her psychology degree at Shenandoah University. The level of work she was doing there was no more difficult than AP Psychology. Her practicum for graduation was the level of research you'd see at a HS science fair. Look, it's a perfectly great university, but the degree she earned from there is not on the same level as my B.S. in Psychology from Duke. She's now prepping for grad school and if she gets accepted at some of the programs to which she's applying, she's going to struggle.

I know that it isn't fair, but where you obtained the degree from does matter in the real world. Yes, having one gives you an advantage over someone without, but a UVA degree is no match for a CNU degree.