Little by little, information about how former Richmond police chief managed to get a degree out of VCU has leaked into the mainstream press. It’s been a tortured process, but a lot has come out over the summer. Still, we can’t help but feel there’s always more to come. Today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch has yet another story on this matter.
S. Jon Steingass said in an interview yesterday that he was told in late 2006 by Robert D. Holsworth, then dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences, that the president’s office was “very interested in Rodney Monroe getting a degree from VCU.”
Yesterday’s 35-minute phone interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch was Steingass’ first public account of his involvement in the scandal over the former Richmond police chief’s degree. Steingass said he wanted to address the university’s assertion that he was disciplined for his role in the the degree flap and maintained that he resigned his VCU post to accept another job.
Click here to read the entire article by Michael Martz.
One has to wonder if Monroe could have gotten his degree from the University of Phoenix. Could he have applied his VCU credits — six hours? — to what credits he’d already amassed from his work online? If he received a degree from the University of Phoenix, couldn’t he walk away from his bogus VCU degree and keep his job in Charlotte?
If that is possible, wouldn’t such a move solve a lot of problems for everybody?
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