siserune

You posted further evidence that the only time people specifically disclose their affiliation to the Extension School is when they don't have a choice about it. The lack of choice could arise because some Harvard entity (alumni club, etc) chooses the description for them, or because there is no substitute phrase that excludes the words "Extension" and "Continuing Education", but either way, few people make a point of mentioning HES per se. It's interesting that Harvard doesn't require the words "Extension School" to be mentioned, but that doesn't explain why people never elect to mention it when the option is there --- that kind of studious avoidance just isn't the case for the Education School, Divinity School, Design School, Kennedy School, Business School, or any other branch of Harvard that I've ever heard of.

As to the usage of A.L.B, it is relatively obscure and is understood clearly only by the tiny minority of the population who know it to be associated with HES. Even at Harvard that's a minority, though not a tiny one. Most Harvard students would not necessarily know that an ALB or ALM is an Extension School degree, it could conceivably be from any of the graduate schools or even an undergraduate degree (not all of which are AB's). So this idea that all is made transparent by adding the magic letter "L" in the middle of the initials is a bit ridiculous, even if it is in compliance with Harvard's institutional policy. The point that you have totally failed to answer, which has been stated from my first post in the thread, is that the HES affiliates deliberately play on the unclarity and the obscurity of the situation.