[HPFGU-OTChatter] Joanne Rowling's Doctorates

[Ladi lyndi]

--- Mycropht wrote:
> Hey. It took my 5 years of watching "The Cosby
> Show" to realize that the
> Educational Consultant they used who called
> himself "William H. [?] Cosby
> Jr. Ed.D" was Bill Cosby flaunting his honorary
> doctorate. 

Lynn:

Actually, Bill Cosby's doctorate isn't honorary,
well, at least one of them isn't.  LOL

According to biography.com:

"Though his successful career as an entertainer
made a college degree unnecessary, Cosby spent
much of the 1970s earning advanced degrees in
education at the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst. The university allowed him to substitute
life experience for his uncompleted bachelor's
degree and his work in prisons and on the
children's television program The Electric
Company for its teaching requirement. Cosby wrote
a 242-page dissertation called "An Integration of
the Visual Media via Fat Albert and the Cosby
Kids into the Elementary School Curriculum as a
Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased
Learning," and in May of 1977, he was awarded a
doctorate of education." 


After reading his biography, it's easy to see why
he's proud of that doctorate.

Lynn


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