“A liberal arts college degree is nearly worthless / waste of time and money.”
Often true, though I have a degree in Sociology which I thought was useless. But I learned about statistics and how to use them, how to communicate, sound intelligent and a LOT of things I learned applied to real estate sales and development very well.
It’s not the degree, it’s how we use it.
Though I should also note that tuition was $200 a semester when I was in college. Books for a semester were often more expensive than tuition.
To the extent that Ward Churchill was hired and promoted - University professor - because he claimed to be a Native American, he would be guilty of academic fraud. But the situation is worse than this.
Thomas Brown, a professor of sociology at Lamar University, has written a paper that outlines a more conventional form of academic fraud on Churchill’s part. According to Brown, Churchill fabricated a story about the U.S. Army intentionally creating a smallpox epidemic among the Mandan tribe in 1837, by simply inventing almost all of the story’s most crucial facts, and then attributing these “facts” to sources that say nothing of the kind.
“One has only to read the sources that Churchill cites to realize the magnitude of his fraudulent claims for them,” Brown writes. “We are not dealing with a few minor errors here. We are dealing with a story that Churchill has fabricated almost entirely from scratch. The lack of rationality on Churchill’s part is mind-boggling.”
Similar charges have been leveled against Churchill by University of New Mexico law professor John Lavelle, a Native American scholar who has documented equally fraudulent claims on Churchill’s part regarding the General Allotment Act, one of the most important federal laws dealing with Indian lands. (Lavelle also accuses Churchill of plagiarism).
Of course some people believe they’re Napoleon. But that’s not a good reason for giving them professorships in French history.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338679/posts