Comments on Advance Indiana™: Carson Needs To Come Clean On Education Claims

I'm curious as to how Andre got the approx. $ 65,0...

2008-03-01T09:20:00.000-05:00

I'm curious as to how Andre got the approx. $ 65,000 for tuition
at both schools for his degrees, condensed into only about 5 years. Student loans? Has he missed any
student loan re-payments since 2007
when re-payment on the loans would have started?

I agree that Mr. Carson's degrees may not be equal...

2008-02-29T12:27:00.000-05:00

I agree that Mr. Carson's degrees may not be equal to a full-time four year program; however, he is not misrepresenting himself or his education. He has stated all his degrees clearly. We must leave it up to the voter to decide if the type of education is a critical matter. Furthermore, earning any type of adult degree should be commended. Not everyone has the luxury of having the flexibility to go to school full time.

From the Concordia University-Wisconsin website li...

2008-02-29T11:16:00.000-05:00

From the Concordia University-Wisconsin website listing all "other Concordias"

"CUW students may study for a semester, possibly for one year, at any of our nine sister institutions:

Concordia - Ann Arbor

Concordia - Austin

Concordia - Chicago

Concordia - Irvine

Concordia - New York

Concordia - Portland

Concordia - St. Paul

Concordia - Selma

Concordia - Seward"

I review dozens of employment applications daily. ...

2008-02-29T10:44:00.000-05:00

I review dozens of employment applications daily. I've grown very wise to people presenting phony degrees to qualify for certain job openings at certain pay levels. I always request the transcripts from the respective universities and colleges where degrees are obtained. It is amazing the number of applications I'm tossing because the degree conferred just doesn't add up to the substance of the student's learning at that school. Major educational institutions need to insist on a crack down against these phony degrees. They really are degrading the value of degrees people legitimately earn.

These degrees are a complete sham. It cheapens the...

2008-02-29T08:04:00.000-05:00

These degrees are a complete sham. It cheapens the value of the real degrees the rest of us at legitimate institutions of higher learning. If he can pass off these degrees as the equivalent of the two degrees I earned from IU and Butler, then something is wrong with our system of higher education.

This mail-order, quick-degree situation is well-do...

2008-02-29T06:20:00.000-05:00

This mail-order, quick-degree situation is well-documented and it will not help Andre.

Anyone who talks more than one minute with Andre, knows that any post-graduate degree for this guy is a modern joke.

You see, Gary, both programs allow your Grandmothe...

2008-02-28T22:26:00.000-05:00

You see, Gary, both programs allow your Grandmother to do your homework and take your tests.

That's "modern education, adult-learner programs."

You're so out of touch to expect one to EARN a degree. Get with it!!

I think anon 10:10 it trying to explain that both ...

2008-02-28T22:19:00.000-05:00

I think anon 10:10 it trying to explain that both are just mail order degrees.

Concordia University-Wisconsin makes the following...

2008-02-28T22:10:00.000-05:00

Concordia University-Wisconsin makes the following claims about its adult education program:

Three credits in four to six weeks
Earn your degree in as little as two years

here:
http://www.cuw.edu/AdultEd_Graduate/adult_education.html

And Indiana Wesleyan makes this claim:

Complete your online MBA in about 18 to 20 months!*

http://business-degree.iwuonline.com/mba/MBAxpress-program.htm

To be quite honest, you seem out of touch with modern education, especially the proliferation of degree-completion and adult learner programs.

You say that you couldn't have worked a full-time job and earned a law school degree in 3 years, yet plenty of people work jobs that are far more demanding than Mr. Carson's and they earn their law degrees in only one more year than you.