Harvard vs. the Internet
Kevin Carey,
The Quick,
Jun 09, 2010
Kevin Carey is engaged in a war of words after calling Harvard Summer School "fake" in a Chronicle column. If the comment had been voice in Carey's regular blog, a neo-libertarian blague called Marginal Revolution The Quick and the Ed. But posting as he does in the Chronicle, he has been given the appearance of authority, which prompted a response from Donald H. Pfister, Dean of Harvard's Summer School. I think that deans from Harvard - a school that still refuses to recognize any online credit whatsoever - are ill-equipped to enter into online debate. Pfister certainly fails to realize that he was waded deep into Carey's home territory, an online flame war of dubious substance, one which sees a Harvard dean saying "we accept the credits" from the Summer school and Carey saying "no you don't." As for the accusation of "fake", by definition Harvard cannot issue a fake Harvard credential, therefore the worst that Carey could accuse them of offering is "an alternative but incompatible credential." That, though, doesn't pander.
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