JB got her undergrad degree at UD in 1975, and her Ed.D. in 2007. The Biden School for Public Policy at UD wasn't even given that name until December 2018. Her education had nothing to do with the school being renamed. The school's blurb said it was renamed to honor Joe Biden, former Vice President, who got his own BA there.
You said without evidence that Jill is inflating her accomplishments. She has never called her degree a Ph.D. She has three other degrees, a BA and two Masters. Please explain this inflation you're claiming. Like it, hate it, denigrate it, the woman had the intelligence and discipline to further her education and use it to help others. Look at the difference between a Ph.D and an Ed.D, and why people would choose one over the other. Here's an explanation below. It appears Jill took exactly the path she needed because her major interest was teaching, not research.
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Doctor of Education (EdD) is a professional degree designed for practitioners pursuing educational leadership roles. A
PhD in education, on the other hand, is designed to prepare graduates for research and teaching roles.
“With a PhD, [students are] reviewing the research, seeing a gap in the literature, and generating new knowledge based on a theory or hypothesis,”
Joseph McNabb, a professor of practice in Northeastern’s
Graduate School of Education, explains. “Conversely, an EdD student starts with a problem of practice and [works to learn] the skills it will take to resolve that complex problem of practice.”