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Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search March 26, 2008Korean University Sues Yale U. for $50-Million in Case of Forged Ph.D.A South Korean university is suing Yale University for $50-million, alleging that Yale erroneously confirmed a fake Ph.D. in art history as authentic, then falsely denied having done so. According to the Associated Press, officials at Dongguk University believe that Yale’s denial of its initial error “publicly humiliated and deeply shamed” Dongguk by giving the Korean public the impression that Dongguk had hired a professor for an art-history post improperly and then forged documents to cover up its mistake. The professor, Shin Jeong-ah, has become the object of intense scrutiny in the Korean news media. Dongguk hired her in 2005, but questions soon arose about her degree. The university sent Yale a query, and received a faxed reply saying the degree was authentic. In 2007, new questions arose, this time about her dissertation, but Yale said it had no record of any such document. Yale officials then insisted that the 2005 fax confirming Ms. Shin’s degree’s authenticity had been forged. The university later admitted that a Yale associate dean had mistakenly sent the fax in “the rush of business.” Ms. Shin is in jail awaiting trial on charges of having forged the degree. Yale said it had apologized to the Korean institution “for the administrative error that delayed the discovery of her fraud.” But Dongguk officials say Yale’s negligence not only sparked a criminal investigation but also tarnished its reputation, leading to declines in donations and applications. —Lawrence Biemiller Posted on Wednesday March 26, 2008 | Permalink |Comments
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Translated from English to Korean, “the rush of business” means “associate dean was lazy and couldn’t be bothered”.
— Mikkey Kim Mar 27, 10:24 AM #
interesting: she’s in jail for faking a degree and we have several high level folks accused of plagiarism but no one ever found guilty—despite the fact that plagiarism is still plagiarism even if committed “accidentally”
— Curious Mar 27, 01:33 PM #
Good points, #1 and #2. The next question (of course no need to answer them) is who is more diligent on issues that we always pound all over the world that we are the best at ….justice, democracy, ethics…. Good for Dongguk University. But as always, just watch how Yale will manage to get out if this. How and why, you ask? ….because we are the “masters of the universe” (tongue-in-cheek).
— /Really Concerned Mar 27, 02:16 PM #
Whether or not the degree was forged, and putting aside the reverberations and backlash this situation has caused – is there a standard practice at Dongguk to check the validity of potential hires’ degrees prior to their being hired?
— Interested Mar 27, 04:59 PM #
Concerning #4: Before flogging Dongguk too much for this—-In fact, among many universities, including Tier 1’s, it actually is not totally common to check degrees. I think the assumption is that if a person can get the reference letters generally needed for the hire, then there must be a degree to back it. That does work…most of the time.
— Bob M. Mar 28, 10:35 PM #