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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Yeah, I'm sure you don't learn anything being PA to the President...give me a break.
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No. Give me a break.
Of course you can learn a lot using on the job training, but there are still some standards that should be met.
In my personal case, I dropped out of college with 14.5 quarter hours remaining to take a TV director job.
After over 15 years of experience directing everything from local news to national network sports, I went back and finished my degree through what was at that time called "experiential learning," which offered credit for life experience -- providing that experience was roughly equivilent to what the courses in the university program taught.
It took a year and a lot of writing to complete. One of my advisors in this program had spent a year with me as a National Association of Television Program Executives faculty intern working under me. I was teaching college level production courses at the time.
But I still had to go through the formal process.
I suspect this person is outsanding, but it is beyond my comprehension that someone with no bachelors degree could be admitted for any kind of advanced/terminal degree at an institution with the reputation of Harvard.
That is pure politics.