It’s interesting how some folks are always looking for some sort of institutional authority. First, I wrote when I left Microsoft in 2013 in a piece called Independence: That, at least, was the impression I got on X and in group chats, but I recognize I may be biased on two counts. What was interesting about this story is the extent to which those associated with Harvard - such as this professor and this political pundit - were baffled that people didn’t care about this distinction, and the extent to which everyone else was baffled at how much they did. The school describes itself as an “open-enrollment institution prioritizing access, equity, and transparency.” Eligibility for the school is, according to its website, “largely based on your performance in up to three requisite Extension degree courses, depending on your field, that you must complete with distinction.” High school grades and SAT and ACT scores aren’t required at the institution. Harvard Extension School, in a nutshell, is part of the renowned institution, but it is not Harvard as most people know it (a Harvard student once joked that it’s the “back door” to Harvard). Rufo received a Master’s in Liberal Arts in Government from Harvard Extension School in 2022, the school confirmed in an email to The New Republic. On paper, Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who recently was appointed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to sit on the board of a small Sarasota liberal arts college whose curriculum the governor dislikes, presents his credentials as impeccable: Georgetown University for undergrad and “a master’s from Harvard,” according to his biographical page on the Manhattan Institute’s website.īut that description, and similar ones on Wikipedia, in the press release DeSantis’s office sent out, and on Rufo’s personal website, are at the very least misleading. The New Republic article that I found more interesting, though, and yes, pertinent to Stratechery, was the one being passed around Twitter over the weekend: Christopher Rufo Claims a Degree from “Harvard.” Umm … Not Quite. Rufo is certainly familiar with Alinsky he cited the activist just a couple of months ago, celebrating the fact that The New Republic had called him dangerous. Students who have been found responsible for any violation of these standards will not be permitted to submit course evaluation of the course in which the infraction occurred. Students who, for whatever reason, submit work either not their own or without clear attribution to its sources will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College. Whenever ideas or facts are derived from a student’s reading and research or from a student’s own writings, the sources must be indicated… In addition, all paraphrased material must be acknowledged completely. Quotations must be placed properly within quotation marks and must be cited fully. The term “sources” includes not only primary and secondary material published in print or online, but also information and opinions gained directly from other people. Students should always take great care to distinguish their own ideas and knowledge from information derived from sources. It is expected that all homework assignments, projects, lab reports, papers, theses, and examinations and any other work submitted for academic credit will be the student’s own. That mismatch is perhaps the most striking aspect of the Gay episode: a millenial on Twitter took down our most august institution’s president by employing the 4th of Saul Alinsky’s Rules of Radicals: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” In this case the book of rules was the Harvard University Plagiarism Policy: Harvard, meanwhile, is the oldest university in the United States - older than the United States, in fact - having been founded in 1636. Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led the charge in surfacing evidence of plagiarism against now-former President of Harvard University Claudine Gay, was born in 1984 he joined X in 2015.
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