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This shit even made it onto KotakuinAction.
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I totally agree with what you said for STEM fields. However, it's not clear to me that some of what you say applies to the humanities. In terms of non academic jobs, getting an MA over a BA in English doesn't open up too many more jobs. It's not like you are going to grad school in English to learn a completely new set of skills, as you might say in Computer Science or Physics.Eh...
Non-thesis masters are getting more common. They basically cater to people being sent back to school for "asset development" by their company as a part of a promotion to fill certain requirements. One of my M.S.'s is a non-thesis.
There are accelerated programs, but I've never seen one less than 2 years, unless you're finishing it with a bachelors, in which case it's take 5 years for a masters 4 for a bachelors, and not 1 year as an M.S. even if your previous B.S. is from the same university. Though I've never stepped outside STEM, so there is that.
Requirements are typically a policy of the department. My Ph.D didn't have a language requirement, and None of the departments I've been attached to have had one, though I haven't been attached to all departments of all universities everywhere, so I can only state that the absolutely mandatory part seems a little off the mark. [/powerlevel]
EDIT: Sorry for the double post.
WARNING AGAINST LYNDSAY KIRKHAM OF TORONTO — AN EMPLOYER’S NIGHTMARE
Lyndsay Kirkham is a resident of Toronto who has been fired from her jobs for cause repeatedly. As someone who remotely knows her and some of her former employers, I am taking this step to warn potential employers against this person.
As she was fired from her most recent job at a feminist publishing company in 2014, she embarked on a vendetta against her own employer, sending out hundreds of e-mails to its customers and contacts containing grossly inappropriate language and allegations against her employer. She also deleted countless files from her employer’s computers, severely sabotaging her own employer and deliberately causing them significant loss.
Her employer had terminated their contract with her for cause. She had demonstrated herself to be grossly incompetent and incapable of carrying out even rudimentary tasks, while at the time behaving in an obnoxious manner, not only against colleagues, but also against the company’s customers and contacts.
As it happens, she has had her employment ended for similar reasons many times. I must therefore warn against this person.
Since 2010, Rachel Dolezal has been hired at Eastern Washington University on a quarter by quarter basis as an instructor in the Africana Education program. This is a part-time position to address program needs. Dolezal is not a professor.
I'd only been aware of Humber College from these forums, as Kylie Brooks is enrolled as a student there. Despite her dubious qualifications, Kirkham is listed as a professor on Humber College's website.The fact that she calls herself a "professor" despite only being a part-time temporary non-tenure track adjunct instructor without a PhD at a community college noone has heard about would qualify her as a "fraudster". It reminds me of Rachel Dolezal, whose former employer sent out this clarification in response to Dolezal's use of the "professor" title:
I'm pretty sure Kirkham is not entitled to be called "professor" either.
I'd only been aware of Humber College from these forums, as Kylie Brooks is enrolled as a student there. Despite her dubious qualifications, Kirkham is listed as a professor on Humber College's website.
While I'm the last person to shit on community colleges - for intro credits that will transfer to a four-year university, they're often a fantastic value - one cannot help but take a dim view of Humber based on its apparent standards.
It's not their job to educate you shitlord.Honestly, this is what happens when people fail to recognize that their knowledge or expertise is not shared by everyone. We should always try to understand that people don't always know as much as we do on certain subjects (and not be assholes).
It's not their job to educate you shitlord.