This actually happened to Quincy Troupe, who was quite an effective professor of Literature at UCSD and Miles Davis’s biographer. Faking a bachelors degree was his downfall. He went on to collaborate on The Pursuit of Happyness, which was turned into a Will Smith film.
And my wife was part of an arts organization connected to University of Arizona that couldn’t hire the most qualified administrator because he maybe had a GED, if that. (He’d run away to join the circus as a teen.)
Of course, this isn’t the sciences, where a degree is much more important!
This actually happened to Quincy Troupe, who was quite an effective professor of Literature at UCSD and Miles Davis’s biographer. Faking a bachelors degree was his downfall. He went on to collaborate on The Pursuit of Happyness, which was turned into a Will Smith film.
And my wife was part of an arts organization connected to University of Arizona that couldn’t hire the most qualified administrator because he maybe had a GED, if that. (He’d run away to join the circus as a teen.)
Of course, this isn’t the sciences, where a degree is much more important!
Very interesting! I will wait until the conclusion of the story (next week) before replying in more detail...