Karen Pickard is the Assistant Professor for Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Her Masters in Healthcare Administration came from Kennedy Western, too. According to her email response -- she didn't know the school isn't recognized.
But the U.S. Congress knows.
In 2004 it held hearings about federal money being spent on degrees from diploma mills. A former admissions counselor for Kennedy Western University testified."I soon discovered this was like no other school I had ever seen," said Andrew Coulombe, the former Kennedy Western Admission counselor. "I saw immediately that I had been misled by Kennedy Westerns' recruiter. I was not going to be counseling anyone. I had been hired to be a telemarketer, using a script to sell Kennedy Western just like any other product."
Coulombe said he called about 500 potential students per week."
We were also instructed to tell applicants that at Kennedy Western, they would be taking the same classes that students took at real schools, like Harvard or Princeton," Coulombe said. "I went to a real school. Kennedy Western is not a real school."
He told lawmakers -- credit was given for little work."Based on my observations during the time I worked at Kennedy Western, I can tell you that there is no value to a Kennedy Western education," he said. "Anything you learn there can be learned by buying a book and reading it on your own."
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From Grinols' online Baylor U. bio:
"Grinols began her doctorate work at Cornell University and completed her degree at Kennedy-Western University in Business Administration in 2001."
Started at Cornell and eded up at KWU? One wonders ...
In comments left by someone named "Anne Grinols" in a BusinessWeek artcle:
Anne Grinols Jan 26, 2007 4:18 PM GMT Excellent points. Credibility is
based on trust and you earn trust by being trustworthy. There are no shortcuts.
Reaching the tipping point in losing trust is an exception to the tipping point
rule: when trust is breached, you tip immediately into loss of credibility, and
thus loss of effectiveness.
Wow.
