Posted on 09/08/2024 11:00:15 PM PDT by 21twelve
As recently as 2011, Tim Walz claimed in official biographies for his campaign and congressional office that he was on the verge of completing a doctorate in education, a decade after he enrolled in a doctorate program at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota in the small town of Winona.
The university, however, told the Washington Free Beacon that its last records indicating Walz was an active student are dated to 2004.
"We can confirm that Governor Walz attended Saint Mary's from 2001-2004 in our doctorate level Ed.D. program," the school's communications director, Ashly Bissen, told the Free Beacon. "He did not complete the degree program."
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In a few months he can add that he was on the verge of being Vice President.
BWAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Thanks for posting. Article BUMP! Tim Walz is a POS.
This is just me but I would look to a brother-in-law more than a sister-in-law for Tampon Timmy.
Eddies like Jill has usually take six years, though if you take the fast track and skip everything else in your life you can get it done in four. Ditto more specialized doctorates like Doctor of Musical Arts (mine).
A true PhD starts at six years, often takes eight because the grad student is either a research or teaching assistant at the same time.
The brother had a son that was badly injured. I’m sure Tim was very attentive.
I’m gonna start calling him “Dr. Tim” anyway, in homage to Dr. Jill. Ridicule, people, it’s in Alinsky’s book.
Dropping out of PhD program at the three year point typically means that your thesis research has failed and you are flunking out of the program.
I’m writing one now. You’re right.
I’m willing to bet Walz volunteered to be on the towel purchasing committee and made sure the locker room towels were as small as possible.
People get them not because they are worth anything or make you a more capable teacher but because the education system is structured such that you need the credential to rise in the education hierarchy and make a higher salary.
The do not make you a better professional, they just make you higher level, better paid member of the education establishment with a bigger ego and sense of self worth.
Just look at Dr Jill - she is the poster child for the EhD. .
I nearly ran a marathon yesterday. And I will nearly run another one today.
Not at all.
It most often means that you have moved on with life, often married with children and have a job and responsibilities, thus it is no longer a priority. I have several doctorates in my immediate family. They really sacrificed to get them, including delaying marriage and having children.
My situation was that my business was so successful and I was making so much money that I just didn’t have the time. I was a CPA with my own large firm and many employees, handling Federal Tax Court cases, large corporate tax practice and auditing governmental organizations, all while I was a full time professor, full time parent for two children, and just couldn’t find the time to prioritize classes. Besides that, the degree was bullcrap. At that level, much of the work is done in groups and not individually. Often, I would research and draft the research paper and someone else got the same grade for typing it.
I was getting paid to do work that my professors wanted to do. I had to do a marketing research project for a graduate class with full statistical analysis. I charged the bank holding company (a client) $8,000 for my coursework report and they were happy to hire me for more work. The professor for the course was pissed as he wanted to do the work I was doing. I was already teaching classes at the University that were a higher level than the courses I was taking. My graduate statistics professor asked me to teach several of our graduate statistics classes. I never showed up for any of her classes and got an “A.” (I was the university’s go to person for the statistical package on the mainframe)
As a CPA, I was already auditing governmental organizations and hospitals, issuing their financial statements, and they required me to take a class in Fund Accounting, to learn the basics of what I was already doing professionally. It was bullcrap. Same thing in law school. I could have taught the class in estate law, as I was already teaching it at another university. It was a total waste of time, so I quit. No regrets as my ego doesn’t need another credential.
That’s why I switched to neuroscience and medical research as it is not nearly as boring. Why get a degree to learn what you already know and to do what you are already doing? (I do have several degrees)
“If you don’t have your health nothing else really matters.”
Bingo... So very true. And that was my sacrifice. Burned out, one illness after another. Didn’t get my priorities straight until I died at age 31, crossed over to Heaven, and they sent my back here.
Mine was University System of Georgia. Having graduated from GIT in 1980 on the GI Bill (USAF 68-76) and going for MBA 10+ years later at KSU.
In the case of Walz’s history, I suspect that he was not hacking it and dropped out.
Bummer
I think the degree is Ed.D. or PhD. We used to call the education degree the DED.. Or doctorate in education. you are correct in assessing their value. Most universities do not hire them outside of education departments as they do not count for accreditation.
Why did they pick THIS guy?
Optics alone are bad enough, but the BLATANT LIES and exaggerations make him a terrible choice.
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