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University of Maryland University College is not exactly the same as the University of Maryland. It's their adult continuing education program basically.



Huh? University College is exactly as much a part of the University of Maryland as College Park.

The complaint is that his bio doesn't specify which campus he attended? This really matters?


From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Of_Maryland

"However, in 1997 the Maryland General Assembly passed legislation allowing the University of Maryland, College Park to be known simply as the University of Maryland, recognizing the campus' role as the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland."

No one of thinks "oh one of those Maryland universities with different faculties and different quality of education" when they hear University of Maryland. They think of College Park.

It may be splitting hairs, but we shouldn't even be having this conversation, as it should be clear on the bio page.


I didn't know that, so I guess you have a point, but it does indeed sound like splitting hairs.

And the reason we are having this conversation is because Dvorak screwed up pretty badly and implied he had no degree at all. No one would have noticed a post alleging that he committed the crime of omitting the name of his college campus from his resume.




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