Master of Business Administration/Accounting

I am proud of my completion of the MBA in Accounting through the University of Phoenix.  I left a career in teaching to retrain in accounting, and I've seen my income increase over 75% working in for-profit small corporations since I graduated.
However, My curent employer sold his business and I'm looking for work, and am finding that the reputation of the College is working against me a bit.
Below is some unfortunate news I received today from a recruiter, and my response, a defense of my education.

Recruiter: 
Hi Brent, 
One of the big things I forgot about that the client was adamant about was no degrees from the University of Phoenix. He won’t even consider them. I pushed, but that is something they just won’t consider. So unfortunately, that kind of puts you out of the running on this one. Sorry about this. 
Will keep the hunt on for you. 

Thanks, 

My Response: 
Sad. That’s very discouraging. Although I’d put my degree up against any obtained from a brick and mortar school. 

The skills I honed earning my degree are directly applicable to today’s workplaces, especially in having to work collaboratively each and every week, with students around the country (sometimes out of the country) to complete deadline driven deliverables as a team. Not only did we have to bring our collective research and work together into a cohesive whole for any given task, we had to work together at the outset to assign and divide the workload, working to the strengths (or around the weaknesses) of each team member. I recognized this as vicarious training for management. In addition, the digital format of the classes more closely matches the work I (and just about anyone, anymore) do day-to-day in communicating through clear writing to all the stakeholders with an interest in my company and my specific job. 

And that’s just the skill-set, not to mention the content, which required us to examine (in every course), the best practices of corporations around the country as they applied to each set of course work, and the fine-tooth comb I felt I had to take with the Financial Accounting Standards that govern American industry. 

Sorry to get on my soapbox, but I’ve heard that there was something of a discriminatory stance toward my degree program before, but I thought it was a minority position. 
What’s your sense of the climate out there – is this widespread?

I am willing to do MACC from Phoenix .

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO DO THIS MBA PROGRAMME AND I COMPLETED HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN ACCOUNTACY MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS cmundora@zimdef.co.zw