Posted on 02/23/2005 8:48:38 AM PST by freespirited
University of Illinois officials said Tuesday they can't locate Ward Churchill's master's thesis and aren't sure if he was required to write one.
The embattled University of Colorado ethnic-studies professor claims undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois' Springfield campus, which was known as Sangamon State University until 1995. Springfield is in Sangamon County.
University of Illinois at Springfield spokeswoman Cheryl Peck confirmed that Churchill received a bachelor's degree in 1974 and a master's degree in 1975. But no thesis is on file, she said.
"We can't say for sure he didn't write one," Peck said. It is not clear if a thesis was a requirement at the time Churchill received the degree in communications, she said.
CU spokeswoman Pauline Hale said she did not know if faculty members inquired about Churchill's thesis in 1991 before giving him tenure.
Documents released last week by CU indicate some faculty members had reservations about granting tenure to a professor who lacked a doctorate.
The documents are silent on a master's thesis.
On Tuesday, Illinois faculty members described Sangamon State - in the 1970s, when Churchill attended - as focused on innovative teaching methods, including an emphasis on social issues of the day.
The campus did not have academic departments. Instead, faculty members were rostered under interdisciplinary groupings, including Churchill's major, communications in a technological society.
Students could major in traditional subjects, such as history or English, but they could also design their own majors in consultation with the faculty.
Larry Golden, a political scientist and one of the original professors when Sangamon opened in 1970, said the school was not as freewheeling as it sounds.
Proposals for self-designed majors were given extensive faculty review, he said.
The campus served only juniors, seniors and master's-degree students. They would have taken the standard courses at a two-year college before coming to Sangamon.
The program included an "applied-studies term," in which students earned credit by working off campus. Projects ranged from working with a state legislator to community organizing.
The students were required to take part in a seminar and write journals or term papers as part of the program, Golden said.
"You couldn't just go to an anti-war rally in Washington and say, 'That's my experience,' " Golden said.
Single-handedly, this man has done more to expose academia as a rats' nest of intellectual fraud and front for anti-Americanism, than the last 20 years of public conservative discourse.
A Thesis is not always required for a Master's Degree. I believe Masters of Arts degrees require a thesis, but Masters of Science degrees do not, but I believe that varies from school to school. I, for example, have a Masters in a science, but I did not have to write a thesis. Many places allow you to walk away with a Masters after completing coursework, but not all.
Based on what I've seen here, Sangamon State wasn't even one of the top 50 schools in Springfield, IL.
ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding
We have a basic matter/anti-matter class contradiction. Expect this diploma mill to explode into it's constituent energy at any moment.
Maybe it'll spare the Duff brewery.
If you go to the Pirate Ballerina site and scroll down to the section on Personal History, the second paragraph is about his real and imagined military history.
http://www.pirateballerina.com/index.php
LOL. I think they're joking about that at my school, but they do say you could wind up being 'volunteered' for the more odious work if you aren't at a faculty meeting.
That's pretty lame. I had to pay dearly to have my Masters thesis printed on special archive paper and hard cover bound with a copy deposited in the university library (where I'm sure it is still gathering dust).
Lol
"Pubic Information Specialist" U.S. Army, Viet Nam
I was in the Marines not the Army but is a "Public Information Specialist" like a Remington Raider or was he a Disc Jockey? LOL
Another "Al Gore war hero!"
Another lie, this clown has been claiming for years he was in Special Forces in Nam!
And he's about as Creek/Cherokee as my cat! LMAO
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Impossible! Especially a non-thesis masters.
Not likely, but not impossible either. I received a BS in Math, from a small liberal arts College in '67, and a MS in Math in '69 from UC Riverside. I did not have to write a thesis, but had to take 36 quarter hours of graduate level Math courses (two classes a day, three days a week), take a language exam, and two qualifying exams. That was it. One could pass the course requirements, by either taking four classes a quarter, instead of two, or by taking the course requirements as an undergraduate in the same school.
Also, one does not need a PhD to teach in the big universities, you just have to impress the hiring committee.
Bravo!
well said!
Maybe that explains his 4.0 GPA. As if I believe that, too.
thanks, will do.
Neither he nor the university has ever claimed that he had a PhD. His purported Native American ethnic background was supposed to have compensated for the lack of one. (Yeah, riiiight.)
Come on folks this should be a no brainer.No masters thesis?No PhD?No problem!Minorities are held to different standards.Ward's hatred of the US along with his American Indian(?)heritage were all the faculty at UofC required.
Right on. I had a doc appointment today and in the waiting room, today's Boston Globe front page had a story on Summers. Prominently featured was a quote from an attacking faculty member saying he ought to go because his comments fostered an intellectually dishonest climate. How's that for disingenous, twisted rhetoric? Earth to Alice -- beam me up to the Red Queen!
On second thought, he's been saying these things for years and no one has probably made any hay over them so he figured he was safe to continue. Maybe we really are changing the climate....
BINGO!
Liberals and the liberal/socialist media have been getting away with so much since the 1960's, they feel they are above scrutiny.
Guaran-by-damn-tee that Churchhill's antics would have been completely ignored by the media. If his activities made the op-ed at all, it would have been as a Letter to the Editor and the author would have been classified as a solitary right wing nut case.
And Dan Rather would still be doing SeeBS news and be toasted by liberals everywhere as the man who brought down TWO Republican Presidents.
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