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[sanantone]

I find the whole issue of accreditation for GGU fascinating. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned is the statements regarding dissertation supervision on the UpGrad website, including this:

1:1 Thesis Supervision
Interact with Golden Gate University senior academic advisors — many of whom are working professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area—during live, interactive 1:1 sessions with the allotted thesis supervisor.

Is this saying that a faculty member associated with GGU will serve as the dissertation/thesis supervisor?  If so, then GGU could easily justify the arrangement to their accreditor by saying they will grant the 32 credits for the dissertation/thesis and verify the content of the core and concentration courses or even accept them as transfer credits. The bulk of the credits and the most salient part of a doctorate—the thesis/dissertation—would be directly supervised by GGU.   As a perspective student, this would also be preferable as you would have the advisor (and perhaps other GGU faculty) to serve as academic and professional references.  Much better than UpGrad adjuncts/employees.

OR, is this saying literally what it says—that students will interact with GGU academic advisors, who are distinct and different from the GGU faculty, thus leaving the door open for non-GGU faculty as dissertation supervisors?

They list GGU professors as the instructors.