Posted on 06/05/2014 1:27:39 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
An official on the Environmental Protection Agency’s hydraulic fracturing scientific advisory board got a doctorate degree from an unaccredited, shuttered online correspondence school that congressional auditors targeted a decade ago in an investigation into diploma mills.
The advisory board member is listed as Dr. Connie Schreppel in EPA records, which highlight her doctorate from Kennedy Western University and a master’s from Greenwich University.
Both schools are unaccredited or unapproved in several states, including Texas, where it’s a misdemeanor crime to cite a degree from either school in seeking a job or a promotion.
EPA officials declined to comment on Ms. Schreppel’s educational credentials and questions about her qualifications for the post. But the scientific panel’s deliberations have drawn intense interest from industry and environmental groups. In 2011, The New York Times reported that “Dr. Schreppel” was one of two New Yorkers serving on the EPA’s “board of independent scientists” studying the relationship between hydraulic fracturing — the drilling technique that has revolutionized American energy production — and drinking-water resources.
Critics have asked why someone with Ms. Schreppel’s credentials would serve on a panel dealing with such a crucial issue for the agency and the economy.
Likewise, EPA officials referred to Ms. Schreppel by the title doctor in a 2010 notice published in the Federal Register: “She holds a B.S. in Laboratory Technology from Syracuse University, an M.S. in Environmental Science from Greenwich University, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Kennedy Western University,” the notice stated.
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DISMANTLE the E.P.A. DISMANTLE socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. DEPOPULATE unaccountable, unelected, unaffordable bureaucrats from the body politic.
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This is but one of the reasons that we are in the fix that we are in. However, even Harvard grads have been known to underimpress from time to time.
She deserves a masters in BS.
I wonder what kind of salary taxpayers are paying her?
Sounds more she has NO degree.
Kennedy Western? Is its biggest degree is a BA in drunk driving?
Greenwich University?? Is its biggest program a BA in BS?
BS, MS, PhD = bull s**t, more s**t, and “piled higher and deeper”
“Dr. Schreppel” was one of two New Yorkers serving on the EPA’s “board of independent scientists”
Just another New Yayker trying to bring Texas down to
their level, three flights below the sewer. They need
to get over their jealousy of Texas. Texas didn’t vote
all their freedoms and principals out the widow, they did.
She appears to be the Director of Water Quality at the Mohawk Valley Water Authority, for which she has worked for 37 years. So she seems to be a local gal who got a technical degree at Syracuse and went to work for a local utility, which is all to the good. Why she thought she needed to burnish her resume at degree mills, I don’t know. The easy supposition is that she was plugging away in a government bureaucracy that is impressed with mindless credentialism.
This is a useful case study. Remember that the dems are pushing hard for “pay equity,” the gist of which is to push promotion and pay systems in the direction of government HR practices, which value paper credentials and checking boxes on a form over experience, performance, or the intangible qualitative aspects of a job.
In other words, there’s no reason to dump excessively on her. She appears to be a careerist in a system that values ticket punching. She’s no different than the classroom teacher who picks up educational credentials that aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, simply because the system requires and rewards jumping through the hoops.
No...there is every reason to “dump on” anyone who uses such scams to create “credentials” that mislead and are essentially BS. How about being concerned about honesty and integrity? She should be fired immediately.
My dad, who was a nuclear chemical engineer said the same thing. Another saying...expert is a ‘has been drip’. Ex is a has been, pert is a drip, so ...
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