Stupid Policy at a Police Department

[sanantone]

I believe you could argue that all accredited college degrees are not "internet degrees" because "the internet" does not have legal authority to issue degrees in any state. Only a college can issue a degree, so if I earned my degree from a college, then I would expect the pay increase because I would have an accredited college degree. Now, if they didn't understand the distinction, my lawyer could probably explain it using small words.

EDIT: I wanted to copy / paste the part of the policy being referenced-

Qualifying degrees must be from a college or university accredited by one of the six (6)
nationally recognized regional accreditation boards. Internet degrees, degrees from institutions
without physical campuses, degrees from diploma mills, or similar institutions shall not qualify.

I read this as sentence 1 explains the qualifying degree criteria, and sentence 2 explains the type of degree that does not qualify. So, again, I think any RA college with a physical campus wouldn't be questioned (TESC). RA colleges without a physical campus (APUS) would require a fight.

A TESC degree probably wouldn't be questioned because they don't know what they're talking about. All they will see is that TESC offers courses on ground, but they probably won't realize that only the nursing program is on ground. But then again, they will probably wonder how you worked in Texas while attending a school in New Jersey. If you have a degree from Excelsior or Charter Oak, sorry. Your degree is not good enough for them.

My guess is that most of the detention and law enforcement officers do not have a 4-year degree or higher. Someone else on the other forum pointed out their extremely low cap on how many people will receive educational incentive pay: 20 masters and 125 bachelors. I'm just assuming that the union agreed to this low cap because degrees are rare at BCSO. There are about 800 detention officers and probably around 800-1000 police officers. I have to distinguish between the two because they're all called deputies.

As I said on the other forum, University of the Incarnate Word, Our Lady of the Lake University, and St. Mary's University in San Antonio offer "internet degrees." How do they expect to tell that someone attended one of those colleges online? What I also said on the other forum is that I should send an email to Governor Rick Perry's office to tell them that his beloved WGU-Texas is not good enough for BCSO.