I started my Dissertation August 2015 and January 2017 I was told it is the wrong topic. I have been paying 2300 a class for nothing no progression at all and they are working on it should have called me. November 27 and I’m still waiting
The schoo is Northcentral
You need to go meet with your dissertation committee and work through your options. It is not unusual for candidates to be told that they headed in the wrong direction, and that they need to do complete re-writes. This happened to three close friends of mine. One was already working and never did finish the dissertation. Being ABD has not hindered in that persons career. Another conducted more research, re-wrote large parts of the dissertation, and defended a year later. The third packed her bags and moved to a different university entirely, where she spent three years developing an entirely new dissertation topic which she successfully defended.
who is your faculty advisor? Usually your advisor has to approve the topic for your dissertation, did you do a defense of the topic before you started?
January 2017 was over a year ago…
So…what has your faculty advisor said in that year.
@teechme
You’re in graduate school?
It’s weird that you ask the question here (if there is a question). What do you expect?
I’m not saying this to be judgmental, but as a precursor to being helpful: Northcentral is an online, for-profit university. As a for-profit university, their first interest - and responsibility, to their shareholders - is making a profit. That’s not saying that the professors are angling for that or anything; but it IS saying that you may have to be even more proactive than you would otherwise be. As long as you are hanging around, you are presumably paying them fees to stay registered.
August 2015 to January 2017 is nearly a year and a half. Were you meeting with your committee members (or at least an advisor) before then? Did you have to go through a proposal defense and acceptance process? The dissertation proposal is supposed to prevent this kind of thing from happening; it’s your assurance that you are on the right track, topic-wise, and that your advisors will accept a dissertation on the topic you proposed. If you went through the defense, I’d bring this up when you meet with your main advisor: if they thought you were on the wrong topic, then why did they accept your proposal and allow you to work on the project for a year and a half before steering you in a different direction?
Also, stop waiting for them to call you. YOU call THEM, repeatedly if you have to. This is your degree (and your money), and nobody is going to care as much about it as you do.