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IMHO, there's no contradiction since most schools accept transfer credits as pass only with no quality points. Grad schools typically accept only a very limited amount (6 hours) of transfer credit. I do not see this as a rejection of DE per se. They just want it to be their own.

 

This is no news. BJU grads have been everywhere. You see a lot of faculty vita at seminaries with BJU undergraduate degrees. Silva, Merrill, etc. are BJU grads. Most, however, have their terminal degrees from accredited schools. So, are you saying that they accept BJU doctorates as a terminal teaching degree?

The BJU doctorate is highly respected in most circles. However, there is a little bit of enigma here. Most of the religion and seminary faculty have homegrown BJU doctorates. The younger profs did their doctorates under older men who earned their own BJU doctorates under Dr. Charles Brokenshire. (Aside: Pete Ruckman earned his doctorate under Brokenshire just before he died.) Brokenshire, however, did not have an earned doctorate. He did doctoral studies at University of Chicago but he never completed his dissertation and received his degree. (See Dan Turner’s Standing Without Apology) Brokenshire’s doctorate was honorary, not earned. Since it takes a doctor to make a doctor, who made the first doctors at BJU? Can a doctor made by a doctor who did not have an earned doctorate make another doctor? Seems there was a little doctoring. Of course, this follows the same honorable tradition of the first American doctor, Dr. Cotton Mather. You know the story.

This little phenomena, however, has been observed elsewhere too. Union Institute (now called Union Institute and University) was one of the first accredited DL schools offering doctorates. They offered a doctorate in psychoanalysis headed by a man with his doctorate from Heed University, an unaccredited university in Florida. They listed no other faculty in this field. So, how can an unaccredited doctorate make an accredited doctorate? Tell me.