Following scandal with Korean professor, University revises degree-verification procedure
Korean media: Korean prosecutors requested investigation into Yale’s role in “Shin-gate” by U.S. law enforcement officials
Updated Friday 10:40 p.m. After disclosing last weekend that the University had mistakenly confirmed to an employer the authenticity of a doctorate degree fabricated by a Korean art history professor, Yale officials said they have changed their procedure for verifying graduate degrees — and will not be fooled again.
University officials will no longer confirm or deny whether a person holds a degree from Yale based on any external documents they are presented, Associate Director of Public Affairs Gila Reinstein told the News today. Instead, she said, the administrators will...
Or did any of them receive degrees from Yale? And how could we be sure? Ask them? (I guess we at least know when a letter is authentic -- it's when the Dean's name is spelled wrong.)
Why was internal verification never a policy previously??? And, more importantly, why didn't I take advantage of this loophole?
So let me get this right. Associate Dean Schirmeister and Deputy General Counsel Susan Carney sent a letter, which was wrong, was not the standard form, and couldn't even the spelling of the Dean's own name correct?
I wonder what would happen if a student submitted an essay that was factually untrue, and they couldn't even spell their own name right? Are Schirmeister Reinstein (the "spokesperson" who apparently failed to do adequate research before making her pronouncements) and Carney, Harvard grads by any chance?