Tuesday, January 22, 2013

RYS Finally Gets An Award, Only 969 Days After We Stopped Publishing!


Rate Your Students Rocks!!

Hi there,

I just wanted to let you know that your blog has been selected as a top higher ed blog to watch in 2013!  We sifted through hundreds of already recommended blogs to find the best and most relevant among them.  Our editors selected your site to be listed on UniversityWebinars.org as one of our picks. Here is a story about our process and method.

We are also narrowing down our list to the top 25, so stay tuned for that soon. Thanks for creating a great resource for higher education innovators!


Congratulations!

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  2. Is it just me, or do people who actually put "Ph.D." after there names always turn out to be narcissists with "degrees" in education?

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    1. No.
      I answer this question with great confidence.
      But you were referring to Dr. Eich, were you not?

      It does make me wonder about getting a PhD from a clown college or a war college. Or an online college. Or even Absorbine Junior College.

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    2. Or even Absorbine Junior College.

      Which, in my current condition, I read as Absinthe Junior College.

      But going back to what Surly wrote, Dr. Eich seems to be a particularly egregious example of a Ph.D putter.

      Also, even if it's on someone else's budget, never buy a book where the author put "Ed.D" after their name...

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    3. I find a correlation between this and the chance that said person went to an online place.

      There is an administrator on campus that signs every single email "Dr Val Simpson, PhD" -- yes, both dr and phd -- but her degree is in education from University of Phoenix.**

      (both online uni and name changed, obvs)

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    4. I saw a great bumpersticker that said "My kitten graduated from University of Phoenix." To amuse myself, I substitute "Erectile Disfunction" for Doctor of Ed.

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    5. I saw a great bumpersticker that said "My kitten graduated from University of Phoenix." To amuse myself, I substitute "Erectile Disfunction" for Doctor of Ed.

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    6. I have to confess, I've got "Ph.D." after my name (but not also "Dr." before) in my automatic email signature block. It's partly self defense, and perhaps partly self-advertisement, since the next line, my title, makes it clear that I'm not on the tenure track (hey, I'm available if you want to give me a better job, and at the very least, please don't assume that I hold my present shitty job because I didn't finish my Ph.D.!).

      However, I always "sign" above the block with a more informal version of my first, or first and last names, depending on whether I'm writing to a colleague or a student.

      If I had a tenure-track job, I think I'd be inclined to leave off the "Ph.D.," since academic titles usually indicate that someone holds the Ph.D. (or an equivalent degree).

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  3. Nice to see an education professional exuding all the relevance and timeliness I've come to expect. Mencken would have been proud.

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  4. You were ahead of your time. Congratulations. Cash should get all the credit.

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  5. "Dr. Darin Eich earned his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis" (from his website. Go look. You can choose to examine any of his many inspirational speeches, keynote addresses or seminars!).

    Is this the education doctorate of education doctorates?

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    1. I stopped reading when I saw the word "innovation." Blargh.

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  6. If we win this prestigious award, we will never be able to kill College Misery. We already see Rate Your Students is a zombie blog that gets resurrected by educational leadership experts.

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  7. Don't tell me, let me guess. There's an entry fee for the final round. Or maybe he just wanted you to link to his web page, in which case he succeeded, but. . . .

    Here, I'll help the search engines along a bit:

    Darin Eich, Ph.D. , more information about whom is available at darineich.com , is an idiot who, on his other website, Universitywebinars.org , gives awards dated 2013 to websites that have been inactive since 2010 .

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