Dama wrote: ↑17 Sep 2024, 17:15
Naga Tuma wrote: ↑17 Sep 2024, 16:49
Dama wrote: ↑17 Sep 2024, 16:12
Professor or just a Dr?
One earns professorship after years of published research papers. Birhanu is certainly a doctor of philosophy in socioeconimics but he does not have
enough published research papers for discoveries of NEW knowledge.
Unless you mean honorary professorship? Usually, only honorary doctrates are awarded. Not honorary professorship.
From what I can guess, the only reform he carried out is policing Testing so that cheating to pass exams is difficult.
No reforms are made in the supply of quality of education.
I have learned that there are three tiers in Professorship: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor. All are bestowed upon by accredited institutions.
I have heard in news where he is referred to as Professor. I don’t know if it is official or if you are officially accredited to qualify or disqualify it.
Just like you, I have heard media refer to him as Dr., Mayor of Addis and Professor. He was never a Mayor of Addis.
Professor?
There are questions about its legitimacy for him.
For a few years after graduating, he taught in the university that awarded him PHD. He then moved to Addis when EPRDF came to power. He established and run a fertilizer company in Addis and taught at AAU as a volunteer, unpaid. He established The Rainbow Political party which united with EDP and AEUP of Hailu Shawel to form Kinijit. Went to jail for boycotting parliament as protest for the 1997 rigged election. Released a year or so after and came back to America.
He established Ginbot 7 and went to Eritrea to fight gorilla war to bring down EPRDF. Meles sentenced him to death in absentia for terrorism. In 2018, when Abiy Ahmed came to power, pardoned him and came back to his country again.
Where is the scholarship in all the above other than political and military careers? I don't see any.
I remember reading a few things about him.
He was a faculty member of Addis Ababa University before he was imprisoned.
In prison, where they said it spoke Oromigna then, his conversation with some prisoners worried him about the political direction in which Ethiopia was going. I remember reading or hearing in the media that it led him to get involved in politics after his release from prison.
He was elected the mayor of Addis Ababa in 2005. However, his party disputed the fairness of the election, which led to him not becoming the mayor.
More recently, I remember coming across a media report that he was once a Professor at Bucknell University.
A quick search in the internet also shows that he was an Associate Professor there.
As a government official himself, he is in a position to inform the public his official highest academic credential.
Wasn’t it you who once called me a professor on this forum? I informed you or whoever he or she was immediately that I am not a professor. Informing the public is that simple. You don’t have to belabor that much about his academic credential.