Well, but there are some really good online programs out there. I'll bet a cat didn't get into Texas Tech's new online Ph.D. program, for instance. Or it would be a cat with great qualifications and potential. :)

I fully agree. I know of at least a few online programs that are really excellent. I'm thinking primarily of the diploma mills and that ridiculous garbage that comes to me everyday as SPAM...:-)

I decided to change the blog for accuracy.

A Google search for "Trinity Southern University" turns up a few doctors and managers with degrees from Trinity. One link is http://urology.ucsf.edu/faculty/facDahiya_bio.html. Another links to a different diploma-selling site http://www.unicalamus.org/faculty.htm

I am uncertain whether http://www.rushmore.edu/ is of this type; I mention that school because some of their pages refence candidates whose other degrees are from Trinity.

I believe the web sites these companies maintain could be interesting fodder for the rhetorical herd.

Dr. Dahiya has already edited his online biography; Google's cached version can be found at http://tinyurl.com/4vcm9. I can't understand why a medical researcher of Dr. Dahiya's obvious accomplishments would want to snag a PhD in Business Administration, much less a PhD from a diploma mill. Weird.

his other credentials. who knows if they are real?

I bet he took the program's propaganda as truth. Figured, what the heck, get a second PhD based on experience. There are naive PhDs, too.

--Dave