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As I responded elsewhere, that's not what she wrote in the post that people are responding to. I would agree that if it were the case that she was offered a full faculty position after a 90 minute remote interview, that wouldn't pass the sniff test. But that's not what she claims in this post. It's very plausible that a working journalist would teach at Harvard Extension School. Though it's at least a bit of a stretch that Harvard would relocate someone from India to do so. And it does seem that her story is changing.

ADDED: And, yes, there seem to be different claims on twitter than what is stated in this post.

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"But that's not what she claims in her post."

I am not sure how much more clear I can be with you. Nidhi Razdan claimed on Twitter that she was joining the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences as an Associate Professor. The Harvard Extension School has absolutely nothing to do with any of this. Here is the original tweet:

https://twitter.com/Nidhi/status/1271705895437651968

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The Harvard Extension School is a program of the Harvard Division of Continuing Education, which is part of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

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Again, this is irrelevant. I find it hard to believe how often I have to repeat this. The Harvard Extension School does not hire tenured professors. You do not become a tenured faculty, let alone an associate professor, at Harvard's FAS if you have no research background. The story should fail a minimal scrutiny test from a layperson, let alone a journalist with more than 20 years of experience. This just doesn't add up.

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Why do you repeatedly say "I can't believe I have to repeat this" and then say something you haven't mentioned in this thread?

What an "associate professor" is isn't common knowledge, even for a journalist. It both means something different in Commonwealth countries and the definition of "associate" is "entry level" which doesn't fit either version of an associate professor.

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> You do not become a tenured faculty, let alone an associate professor, at Harvard's FAS if you have no research background.

This is not something someone without a research background would know.

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I'd absolutely expect an experienced American journalist to have a pretty good idea of how academia operates in the US. I do and I don't have a research background. I have no idea though how things operate in India.

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The title is still fishy though even if she (as a journalist!) took some liberties in implying she was a professor at Harvard University (and what that implies) even though she wasn't. Just as if I said I graduated from Harvard when I got a degree of some sort from HES, that's clearly misleading. If you look through the faculty directory of HES, it doesn't look as if HES generally gives titles; most of the titles given are the faculty's positions at other institutions where applicable. (There are a few Lecturers in Extension.)

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Which would have made her an adjunct professor, certainly not an _associate_ professor.