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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.
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Ok Siserune, lets recap because you are either confused about this issue or are deliberately distorting to your own advantage. I think its both but I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are confused about it.
The Extension School is a part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, so it is run like both the College and the Graduate School. College grads usually, but not always put AB Harvard University on their resume. MA grads usually put Harvard University as well, not the specific college. You in turn are putting rules designated for specific schools (Business, Education, Design), not associated with FAS, on to HES. That's your mistake. You are still treating the ES as a separate entity on its own without affiliation to Harvard or the FAS.
Now, the reason why alumni clubs and organizations state the college of the graduates is simply for verification purposes. It lets others know what college they attended and were affiliated with at Harvard. Its not because the graduates were forced into it or were exposed, but because the rules apply to ALL Harvard graduates. Extension students have no qualms with being mentioned as extension students among Harvard alumni. When out in the workforce, they can put Extension School on their resume but usually do not considering that the vast majority of graduates from the FAS likewise DO NOT. I think that your prejudice towards the Extension School blinds your logic and makes you dismiss the same judgment you use on the ES on other grads from FAS.
Would you put this much strain on someone who received an MA (terminal or not) in Government from the political science department at FAS, but did not specify whether he got it at the Kennedy School or not on his resume? Because I can tell you that that is as much a qualm some people have about poli sci. majors as the fuss you make about extension students.
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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.
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Again, see post above. So because it’s a minority that knows this it must be a ploy of deception perpetrated by deceitful extension grads? I think that you came in here with a presupposition that the Extension Schools is such a lowly school in comparison to the other colleges, that anything contrary to what you perceive about it is considered shameless apologizing. You have demonstrated that you know nothing about the Extension School or Harvard’s policies. So you’re insisting that because the general populace is not educated on Harvard degrees that Extension Students should be obligated to reveal their college when its perfectly fine for College and other grads of FAS not to? Shows your bias and your train of logic. Do us all a favor and quit now, siserune.