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Showing Original Post only (View all)Broadwell failed in her PhD attempt at Harvard, faces ethics review at fallback school [View all]
More of a "personality" than a "student."Paula Broadwell, the biographer with whom former CIA director David Petraeus had an extramarital affair, abandoned her bid for a doctorate from Harvard in 2007, failing to advance to PhD candidacy after four semesters at the Kennedy School of Government, and now faces the prospect of an ethical review at Kings College London, where she has resumed pursuit of a doctorate.
She enrolled later that year as a PhD student in the war studies department of Kings College London, where her military leadership research focused largely on Petraeus, according to Broadwells profile on the school website. But four years on, Broadwell remains far from earning her degree, according to the department chairman, and her relationship with the subject of her research could jeopardize her progress toward a doctorate.
One of Broadwells former professors at Harvard described her as a self-promoter who would routinely show up at office hours. It was very much, Im here and youre going to know Im 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 dont remember anything about her as a student. I remember her as a personality.
The professor said when Petraeus chose Broadwell to write his biography, there was shock among the national security faculty at Harvard because she just didnt have the background the academic background, the national security background, or the writing background.
Just an all-around fraud.
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nichomachus
Nov 2012
OP
Narcissistic personality disorder. The w administration grew them as a cash crop.
yardwork
Nov 2012
#1
Yep. This article uses unnamed sources on page one, & on page two, the person speaking on the record
Lucinda
Nov 2012
#15
One of my cohorts finished coursework and defended her dissertation within months
Hekate
Nov 2012
#36
I learned as a young ass-prof that no PhD really understands research beyond their own
HereSince1628
Nov 2012
#37
I can't fault not completing a doctorate. Running afoul of ethics boards, now...
Posteritatis
Nov 2012
#7
+1000. How could she have gotten a thesis committee together and a topic approved before
gkhouston
Nov 2012
#12
There isn't one single standardized doctoral program across all schools. (nt)
Posteritatis
Nov 2012
#18
"I don’t remember anything about her as a student. I remember her as a personality.”
progressoid
Nov 2012
#11
It's kind of amazing how much one of them can completely upend a class, too...
Posteritatis
Nov 2012
#29
Two shameless self-promoters with a talent for manipulating public opinion.
Surya Gayatri
Nov 2012
#21
Ultimately, for such a shameless self-promoter, a Ph.D is an expendable requirement
Surya Gayatri
Nov 2012
#20
It doesn't really matter -- she is who she is and she's not the one who made this whole thing public
gateley
Nov 2012
#28