Newsweek Exposes Wiley's Non-Existent Degree
I've been regrettably busy and haven't yet posted here what we've uncovered about T.S. Wiley's various purported credentials. And now we've been scooped! See Newsweek's Health Gurus: Questionable Claims.
The main revelation is something we've known for a long time. T.S. Wiley has been running around the country claiming a B.A. in anthropology from Webster University (for instance here and on her own web site). This is a blatant lie. The degree does not exist. [UPDATE: After this was published the link went dead. Here's a copy. "T.S. Wiley earned a BA in Anthropology at Webster College, St. Louis, MO." No, she did not.]
On Wednesday I contacted the producers of Larry King Live, before the show, and brought to their attention this non-existent degree. This time, no mention was made of T.S. Wiley's degree in her introduction. And then, her bio page was changed. Where it used to say, "B.A. in Anthropology, Webster University, 1975" it now says "Pending B.A. in Anthropology, Webster University, 1975".
Pending. For 31 years.
Surely no other university has ruined as many careers with such a monumental backlog as this.
We called Webster's office of the registrar and read this new line to them. The registrar literally guffawed. She said there is no such thing as a "pending" degree.
There's more to be told about Wiley's so-called credentials. Stay tuned.
She was in my class and she
She was in my class and she is in the graduation picture
But she didn't get a degree,
But she didn't get a degree, she got a blank diploma. Maybe she never told you that part?
Well we never actually
Well we never actually discussed her diploma one way or the other but if she got that far, it was probably a matter of an incomplete class, basically just a technicality. She probably did most of the work and never finished some paper is my guess.
You don't know why she lacks
You don't know why she lacks an undergraduate degree but you have a supposition. She didn't finish some paper, you conjecture. You're suggesting that she's just not diligent, not a "finisher"?
If what you say is true, I'm not clear why one would put in the years of effort and expense only to give up right at the end, merely for want of finishing a paper, but I can't claim to understand fully what motivates Ms. Wiley.
I'm also not clear whether you are expressing implicit approval of her false claims to this degree she was never granted. Is that your meaning?
EDIT:
I forwarded my response to Ms. Ghillani via e-mail, in case she wanted to respond. She replied:
"well like I think it was said she's changed what she said about the degree, And if you'd been to the college we went to, you'd feel how getting a degree or not wasn't really a big deal."
My reaction:
Ms. Ghillani, you seem to suggest that students of Webster University characteristically regard higher education as some kind of summer camp. And as long as one attends and more or less plays along, but doesn't actually finish the program, one is nonetheless entitled to proclaim the degree alongside those who actually earned it.
You're entitled to speak on your own behalf. But you say, "if you'd been to the college we went to, you'd feel how getting a degree or not wasn't really a big deal." Here, you're now speaking on behalf of those hundreds of thousands of students who have attended Webster and those who actually earned their degrees. If the vast majority of them were to repudiate you and your words, I wouldn't blame them. If I were among them, I would be insulted and embarrassed by your words.
Leaving aside T.S. Wiley's actions.