Bob Newby asked:
"Our faculty senate has recommended that the Master of Fine
Arts, Master of Social Work, Juris Doctorate, along with the Certitified
Public Accountant and a Computing Certification be considered terminal so
that these individuals can be tenured and be eligible for promotion. What
I would enjoy from the collective membership is how does your university
deal with this issue?"
MSW, MFA & JD are terminal degrees.
The CPA is not. My wife is a CPA but her B.A. is in Sociology. All you
need for the CPA is any collerge degree plus X # of accounting courses,
hours in a CPA firm and to pass the exam. My Univ. requires at least the
Masters.
Similarly, I see no reason why Computing should not have the doctorate as
the terminal degree but I would think that an M.S. would be an absolute
necessity. To sat that the B.S. + cert. could be a "terminal degree" is
outrageous. It MIGHT be marginally adequate but certainly not terminal.
