Dialects of Professors

_HazelEyez
Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:08:45 +0000

“Many of the immigrant professors don’t even have degrees from the U.S. Who validates this ?”

Are you referring to Dr. Krstic with your post regarding University of Zagreb? Because according to what I fonud he/she received their PhD from Rutgers (they did their undergrad and masters in Zagreb). Oh, and Dr. Alves from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics completed his undergrad education in Portugal and got his PhD from Penn State. Furthermore, Dr. Al-Omaishi, Associate Professor of Engineering, completed his undergrad in Baghdad and his PhD in Nebraska.

Oh so I suppose we should contact Rutgers, Penn State, and Nebraska to validate their admission of these individuals into their PhD programs? In order for an international student to gain admittance to an American graduate program he/she must usually complete the TOEFL, which “is the most widely respected English-language test in the world.” I wonder who validates the degrees of American students who wish to complete their graduate degree abroad.

If dialects are such a huge issue then it’s a miracle anyone chooses to study abroad these days.