Timeline for Why would a tenure-track job posting ask for an undergraduate transcript?
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| Oct 18, 2020 at 3:32 | comment | added | Anonymous Physicist | This does not explain why unofficial transcripts are requested, or why they are requested at the initial screening step. | |
| Sep 18, 2014 at 12:13 | vote | accept | Casteels | ||
| Sep 18, 2014 at 0:11 | comment | added | emory | A letter from one's "Ph.D. advisor" can be forged. But so can a transcript. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 14:11 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | Even if you trust faculty credentials (since, for example, a letter from one's Ph.D. advisor is already pretty good verification), there's also the issue of staff. The administration may be more worried about staff candidates lying about their degrees, but believe that it would insult the staff if all their degrees were carefully verified while faculty candidates were simply trusted. | |
| Sep 17, 2014 at 10:17 | history | answered | Oswald Veblen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |