She also won numerous Telly American Videographers Association and Communicator awards of excellence and was the recipient of the Athena Winner’s Circle award for community service in 2013, having served on more than a dozen non-profit boards since 2005.Īnother honoree is 2003 graduate Tiffany Gilbert of Pittsburgh. Miele boasts the Catholic Press Association Award for best communication/marketing executive in North America for 2019, 20. She was previously a reporter for WTAE before becoming the youngest vice president of marketing for Excela Health. Miele works as the chief communications officer for the Diocese of Greensburg. The 2023 honorees include Irwin native and 2000 graduate, Jennifer Miele. in reference to oneself unless one has an earned doctorate.Saint Vincent College is recognizing seven alumni this year for exemplary service based on their accomplishments, careers and commitment to the legacy of the school. Bottom line: One should not refer to the degree as if it was earned, or use Dr. UPDATE: Just found this article by Phil Cooke on honorary degrees. Unfortunately, it appears these kind of tactics are embedded features of evangelical and conservative expressions of Christianity. There may be more personal motives but the effect is that audience members who are motivated by perceived expertise will attribute expertise to Morris due to the embellishments. In the situation above, the publisher and author have embellished credentials to communicate expertise in the service of selling books. Peripheral route tactics influence people to say yes or make a decision for reasons other than the merits of the case. However, in peripheral route strategies, the assumption is that the audience isn’t highly invested in the process but will nonetheless make a decision or render an opinion. An assumption is made that the audience is motivated to carefully consider arguments for and against a proposition. In central route strategies, the persuader offers facts and figures with accuracy being important. Persuasion theory posits two primary routes to persuasion - central and peripheral. The ongoing story of Christian authors embellishing their reputations demonstrates the importance Christian leaders place on peripheral persuasion. Perceived expertise is one of several powerful factors operating via the peripheral route to persuasion. That was a commendable move. Of course, the proper thing to do for both publisher and author is to present an accurate description to the public. When it was discovered that Mark Driscoll’s book Real Marriage achieved New York Times best seller status via a marketing scheme, Driscoll stopped using “NYTs best selling author” as a description. So in his new book published by Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins Christian (as well as the bio on the church website), Morris claims to hold a doctorate of literature when in fact, he was given an honorary doctorate from his own school for books he didn’t write. They may have good ideas and have enough money to afford to pay a good writer but those books aren’t representative of the author’s writing ability when the listed author didn’t write them. I understand that many celebrities don’t write their own books, but it is misleading to consider those celebrities to be accomplished writers. As it turns out, Morris was given an honorary doctorate for writing books he didn’t actually write. He said the ghostwriter helped him with several books. He told his Gateway audience in January of this year that a member of Gateway (David Holland), wrote the book based on on recordings which Morris made in a hotel room. According to Morris, his main work, The Blessed Life, was ghostwritten. This description of the doctor of letters is closer to the reasons why such honorary degrees are given. This would have been about a year after TKU’s board awarded it to him. Morris is currently the chair of the board of the school.Īn earlier 2011 bio described Morris’ doctorate as a “doctor of letters” awarded by TKU. This “doctorate” is most likely to be an honorary doctorate of letters given to Morris by the small Bible school housed in his church - The King’s University. I wrote the church and Thomas Nelson to ask if this “doctorate of literature” was an earned doctorate. See below from the upcoming book, Truly Free: However, in his upcoming book published by the Thomas Nelson imprint of HarperCollins Christian, Morris includes a version of his bio which includes a description of a “doctorate of literature” he claims he holds. Given that significant accomplishment, it seems that self-inflation would be unnecessary. Robert Morris has built a megachurch in Southlake Texas which has been rated as the third largest church in America.
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