More on Broadwell

~ Laura

I have to admit that I've been wondering about Broadwell's getting a PhD at a UK school, while she's a resident of NC. Here's more gossip on her poor academic record. 

One of Broadwell’s former professors at Harvard described her as a self-promoter who would routinely show up at office hours.

“It was very much, ‘I’m here and you’re going to know I’m here,’ ” said the professor, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of ongoing investigations. “She was not someone you would think of as a critical thinker. I don’t remember anything about her as a student. I remember her as a personality.”

 

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5 thoughts on “More on Broadwell”

  1. I think it’s wrong for a professor to speak to the press about a student in that offhand and critical way. This Petraeus scandal seems to be a perfect illustration of everyone behaving badly.

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  2. I don’t know anything about the particular department involved, and perhaps it’s no good, but Kings College London is no bad place to study in general. If I met two people, one who had a PhD from Harvard and another from Kings College London, I think that in general I have no reason to think the Harvard grad was better (perhaps especially from a professional school like the Kennedy school- places not known for being of the highest academic standards.)

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  3. See, that’s the one thing I didn’t question about her. I figured she was competent if overly obsessed with Petraeus. Also, a friend of mine got his PhD in military history at a UK university while living mostly in New York, fwiw.

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  4. I agree with bj. I found the article about Broadwell to be embarrassing for the paper that printed it. It’s the sort of gossip found at dinner parties.
    Ferpa doesn’t apply in this instance? It doesn’t apply to graduate students? It doesn’t apply to people Harvard professors dislike?

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  5. The War Studies Department at King’s College London is very well-respected and well-known internationally in the field. I do not know if this is the case with other UK universities, but I believe that King’s does not require much in the way of a residency requirement. This has made it attractive to some international (non-UK) students.

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