RubenB84

This is the funniest thing I have read on this board.

So basically what you are telling me is that the 100 ALB grads that graduate every year are a threat to the College's prestige? Do you not know that a significant portion of the world does not hold any degree from Harvard, be it college or extension?
And siserune, I do not understand why you do not think that the UC's reaction to the name change as not a urf battle. If they are trying to prevent counterfeiters as you say, then they're defending their turf, as in defending the integrity of their degree by keeping both degrees distinct from one another. Plus, from reading on the subject, I can tell that not even the UC is that informed on what the extension school is.
And even then, siserune, the faculty has to vote on it, and Shinegal will probably get his way sometime in the next two to three years I bet. But believe me even if "extension studies" were rubbed off of the degree, it would still be significantly different because the extension degrees are missing the house masters signature, its says bachelor of liberal arts, and it is clearly signed by the dean of continuing education. So there is no counterfeiting. If a person wants to lie and say they graduated from the college, they would have to present to them a College degree, which they do not have and most likely (depending on job and grad school) their transcript which clearly reads extension school.

siserune,
Harvard is not this dimwitted organization or greedy cabal like corporation that would hand out a degree to any Joe Blow and Jane Doe. They have a name and a reputation to uphold. The ALB program usually weeds a lot of people out and confers degrees only to the handful that made it all the way through. Yes, I would say that the HES degree is at the bottom rung of the Harvard ladder (besides maybe the Divinity School), but it isnt made any less significant simply because it is geared towards the non-trad. student.