XPost: soc.college.grad, misc.education, misc.legal   
   From: junkmail@moreira.mv.com   
      
   Said  "Tom B. Redman"  :   
      
   >   
   >   
   >Do U.S. universities request transcripts   
   >(or degree certificates) from new hires?   
   >   
   >Is there a well-known case of a professor   
   >somehow misrepresenting his/her degree   
   >(Ph.D.) then later getting busted for it?   
      
   Universities typically look for published papers. It's the peer review   
   process that makes a researcher, not the title.   
      
      
   Alberto.   
      
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