I missed something. Why are people confusing her being a doctor of education with a medical doctoral? My son has a Ph.D., so is properly called Dr. Bowden. He chose neither medicine nor education, but engineering, and if you were to send an invitation to his household it would read "Dr. & Mrs. Bowden". Iguess the joke would be, that if you needed your nano-magnetics adjusted, he's the one to call. But why are we telling these hackneyed bad jokes? It took lots of work and lots of smarts to earn the title of doctor.
Perhaps in professional circles it is acceptable, but for a Ph.D. To go around expecting everyone to call him doctor would be pretentious. In the academy, a professorship is much more prestigious.
Actually, no. Dr. Biden is not pretending. She is a doctor of education. The correct way of addressing her, for instance if you were to visit her in her office, or invite her to a wedding, or in cross examining her in court, is in fact, Dr. Biden.
Maybe I should elaborate. Here is a Philly link: The School District of Philadelphia. On that page are quite a few people. Those who have an Ed.D.or Ph.D. are properly listed with their Dr. honorific. Those who do not, have no honorific.
We would call Alicia Prince, Ms. Prince, then. If she would prefer Mrs. or Miss, she could tell us. Or, if meeting her, we might say, "May I call you Ms. Prince"? Whatever works.
The exception is the superintendent. Yet his honorific is "Superintendent", Superintendent William R. Hite, Jr., Ed.D. Note that the Ed.D., revealing his doctorate, is attached to his name. This is not the case with any of the others. In his bio blurb, he is then referred to as Dr. Hite. Upon meeting him in his office, this would be the proper address, something like, "Good to meet you, Dr. Hite."
Here at home, in M's family, the matriarch, who is now 101 btw, indeed has a doctorate from Harvard, childhood education her specialty. The family calls her Dani, and so do I. Early on, she said that I could call her Taka, her first name, nickname. When she was in the hospital, the nurses and other workers there called her Doctor S____, and they would do the same for Dr. Biden.
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I missed something. Why are people confusing her being a doctor of education with a medical doctoral? My son has a Ph.D., so is properly called Dr. Bowden. He chose neither medicine nor education, but engineering, and if you were to send an invitation to his household it would read "Dr. & Mrs. Bowden". Iguess the joke would be, that if you needed your nano-magnetics adjusted, he's the one to call. But why are we telling these hackneyed bad jokes? It took lots of work and lots of smarts to earn the title of doctor.
ReplyDeletePerhaps in professional circles it is acceptable, but for a Ph.D. To go around expecting everyone to call him doctor would be pretentious. In the academy, a professorship is much more prestigious.
ReplyDeleteActually, no. Dr. Biden is not pretending. She is a doctor of education. The correct way of addressing her, for instance if you were to visit her in her office, or invite her to a wedding, or in cross examining her in court, is in fact, Dr. Biden.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should elaborate. Here is a Philly link: The School District of Philadelphia. On that page are quite a few people. Those who have an Ed.D.or Ph.D. are properly listed with their Dr. honorific. Those who do not, have no honorific.
ReplyDeleteWe would call Alicia Prince, Ms. Prince, then. If she would prefer Mrs. or Miss, she could tell us. Or, if meeting her, we might say, "May I call you Ms. Prince"? Whatever works.
The exception is the superintendent. Yet his honorific is "Superintendent", Superintendent William R. Hite, Jr., Ed.D. Note that the Ed.D., revealing his doctorate, is attached to his name. This is not the case with any of the others. In his bio blurb, he is then referred to as Dr. Hite. Upon meeting him in his office, this would be the proper address, something like, "Good to meet you, Dr. Hite."
Here at home, in M's family, the matriarch, who is now 101 btw, indeed has a doctorate from Harvard, childhood education her specialty. The family calls her Dani, and so do I. Early on, she said that I could call her Taka, her first name, nickname. When she was in the hospital, the nurses and other workers there called her Doctor S____, and they would do the same for Dr. Biden.
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