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Thanks for making my point. Harvard alumni organizations ask for and verify your school affiliation within the university, years of attendance, and sometimes even the undergraduate house. Harvard alumni directories give this information for each person listed, just as the Harvard magazine and Harvard Gazette will list Extension graduates as such ("Joe X, A.L.B '93"). So in those situations there isn't the option of revealing or concealing the Extension School affiliation.
The question for this thread was what HES alumni do when there is the option of revealing or concealing. The answer is that, almost 100 percent of the time, they will be very forthcoming about being affiliated with Harvard and very quiet about being affiliated with the Extension School. You claim that the CMU professor and her department "have no problem" listing an HES degree on her CV, but somehow on all her many resumes available on the Internet it is nowhere mentioned that her degree is from the Extension School or in Extension Studies. Harvard Extension is eager to cite her in its marketing material, but she doesn't reciprocate that eagerness to advertise herself (outside of HES web sites) as an Extension School affiliate. That is what was meant by "the love runs only in one direction".
The CMU professor is the norm, not the exception, in this respect. I don't know of any other program at Harvard where this kind of dualism is common.
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