Anyone following the viral Harvard University *Extension School* controversy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember Danny Boice liked to tell everyone (including the press) that he had gone to Harvard when he had only taken some certification type course that you just have to sign up to take (not sure if that is an extension school course, but it's not Harvard College).

He's serving 8 years in prison now for fraud.

Oh, so he mispresented his Harvard experience just like you're misrepresenting what he went to prison for?

[Anonymous]

The same right wing morons were obsessed Dr Jill Biden’s doctorate degree and spammed tweets and hit pieces detailing how fake it was. But Rufo’s fake open enrollment extension school degree he got in his pajamas in 2022 is totally genuine!

[Anonymous]

Just visit campus once and you can also say you went to Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The same right wing morons were obsessed Dr Jill Biden’s doctorate degree and spammed tweets and hit pieces detailing how fake it was. But Rufo’s fake open enrollment extension school degree he got in his pajamas in 2022 is totally genuine!

What is fake about the degree? He earned it. It's up to Harvard to change the name of the program if they don't want to be associated with the extension school.

[Anonymous]

Who really loves Gay? If I were a Harvard person, I sure would want someone other than Claudine Gay representing the school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Extension schools are great for so many reasons. It's just that if one is going to make it their mission to take down someone - "scalped" as he said - for allegedly dishonest work, then it seems that one's house should be in order. And it's not.

What's the problem? It seems like if you go to the website, they make it pretty clear that they're all one big happy family:

https://extension.harvard.edu/about/#:~:text=We%20are%20a%20fully%20accredited,of%20the%20Harvard%20Alumni%20Association.

We are a fully accredited Harvard school. Our degrees and certificates are adorned with the Harvard University insignia. They carry the weight of that lineage. Our graduates walk at University Commencement and become members of the Harvard Alumni Association.

But Extension School degree holders do not list it as "Master's Degree, Government, Harvard University." They are supposed to list it as follows:

Bachelor [or Master] of Liberal Arts, Harvard University Extension School. Include field of study, minor, and degree honors when applicable.
Bachelor [or Master] of Liberal Arts, Extension Studies, Harvard University

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The same right wing morons were obsessed Dr Jill Biden’s doctorate degree and spammed tweets and hit pieces detailing how fake it was. But Rufo’s fake open enrollment extension school degree he got in his pajamas in 2022 is totally genuine!

What is fake about the degree? He earned it. It's up to Harvard to change the name of the program if they don't want to be associated with the extension school.

These are the directions on how Extension School degree holders are supposed to identify:

Bachelor [or Master] of Liberal Arts, Harvard University Extension School. Include field of study, minor, and degree honors when applicable.
Bachelor [or Master] of Liberal Arts, Extension Studies, Harvard University

Seems pretty clear to me. Folks who fail to do so risk being outed for being dishonest and disingenuous about their education pedigree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds as though Harvard University is the one running the grift here, if one buys your assumption (which is probably incorrect) that their online programs are not legitimate.

The programs have been around forever and potential employers can easily verify if the degree is from Harvard Extension. They aren’t just online. They are legitimate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds as though Harvard University is the one running the grift here, if one buys your assumption (which is probably incorrect) that their online programs are not legitimate.

The programs have been around forever and potential employers can easily verify if the degree is from Harvard Extension. They aren’t just online. They are legitimate.

Or one can simply list it correctly on their resume rather than being dishonest and trying to rep that they attended either the Kennedy School or did an MA in Government Studies in the Yard.

[Anonymous]

My DC and husband (back in the day) each took a course at Harvard Summer School, which is part of the Extension school. Wonderful courses were rigorous and taught by legit regular Harvard teachers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a laugh riot this all is, highlighting striver frauds who buy these fake Ivy degrees.

The grifter obsessed with smearing the Harvard president is a Georgetown alum living in Washington state who relatively recently bought an online master’s degree from Harvard’s open-admit extension school. But he deceptively and compulsively called himself a Harvard alum, failing to disclose his precise degree and that it was from the largely online extension school with essentially no admissions standards.

He even used the phrase “night school” to imply he was dashing through the snow in Cambridge after work, when in fact it was an online program he did from home in Washington state. lol. Obviously all an attempt to confer unearned status and smarts.

If you live in Washington state, why wouldn’t you do a program at UW? Because he wanted to buy a phony Harvard degree, right? I assume anyone with one of these bonus Ivy degrees is trying to defraud people.

Apparently they receive the same Harvard degree. Guy did not hide it. Your version got "community noted" on X.

He did hide it. He didn't attend the Kennedy School nor Harvard's grad program in government studies (two separate schools). He attended the extension school, then didn't identify it as such.

So was Leo Frank. Is your point that lynch mobs rule?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds as though Harvard University is the one running the grift here, if one buys your assumption (which is probably incorrect) that their online programs are not legitimate.

The programs have been around forever and potential employers can easily verify if the degree is from Harvard Extension. They aren’t just online. They are legitimate.

Or one can simply list it correctly on their resume rather than being dishonest and trying to rep that they attended either the Kennedy School or did an MA in Government Studies in the Yard.

You have seen a copy of his resume? Where was this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds as though Harvard University is the one running the grift here, if one buys your assumption (which is probably incorrect) that their online programs are not legitimate.

The programs have been around forever and potential employers can easily verify if the degree is from Harvard Extension. They aren’t just online. They are legitimate.

Or one can simply list it correctly on their resume rather than being dishonest and trying to rep that they attended either the Kennedy School or did an MA in Government Studies in the Yard.

You have seen a copy of his resume? Where was this?

When interviewers describe him as having a government degree from Harvard, they had to have gotten the info from somewhere. It's either the resume or Rufo himself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sounds as though Harvard University is the one running the grift here, if one buys your assumption (which is probably incorrect) that their online programs are not legitimate.

The programs have been around forever and potential employers can easily verify if the degree is from Harvard Extension. They aren’t just online. They are legitimate.

Or one can simply list it correctly on their resume rather than being dishonest and trying to rep that they attended either the Kennedy School or did an MA in Government Studies in the Yard.

You have seen a copy of his resume? Where was this?

When interviewers describe him as having a government degree from Harvard, they had to have gotten the info from somewhere. It's either the resume or Rufo himself.

But the info provided says how it must be on his resume. Where is his inaccurate resume?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The same right wing morons were obsessed Dr Jill Biden’s doctorate degree and spammed tweets and hit pieces detailing how fake it was. But Rufo’s fake open enrollment extension school degree he got in his pajamas in 2022 is totally genuine!

What is fake about the degree? He earned it. It's up to Harvard to change the name of the program if they don't want to be associated with the extension school.

No admission standards. Open enrollment. Online. Half the classes not taught by profs with any affiliation to Harvard. Credits can’t be used towards real Harvard programs. Anyone with $40,000 can buy his prole wannabe degree.