[Air-l] Ph.D. student is looking for a good home for his Thesis

[Charlie Balch]

I know things are different in other nations but don't Ph.D. students write
a dissertation and masters students write a thesis?

I also sympathize. My advisor used my dissertation to shake things up in my
department and I ended up with a committee that was mostly
out-of-department. It also took an extra year. I'm very proud of what I
produced but am not sure that the extra time was worth it.

For those that are interested, my dissertation was a case study on Internet
surveys. I created a survey system that encourages best methods of survey
design as defined by research (http://birat.net). You may also be interested
in the review of literature at http://balch.org/lsu/dissertation. 

Best regards,

Reverend Captain Charles Vickroy Balch M.Ed. MBA Ph.D.
(I'll only use that title once) 

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Michael:
I'm sorry for your situation, and know how awful it is. My original Ph.D.
adviser tried to run me out of the program by trying to persuade the rest of
the faculty that they shouldn't serve on my committee. Fortunately, no one
believed the charges he leveled against me and I finished my Ph.D. under a
different adviser. If you are in a similar fix, can't you sue for libel or
slander? I suspect just the threat of that will get your department to bail
you out, though I'm glad I didn't have to test that theory myself.
Best wishes,
Christian Nelson
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