Bevin lied on his LinkedIn entry about his education, falsely implying that he was an MIT graduate. Heres the screenshot of Bevins LinkedIn profile, before he got caught and changed it: http://thehill.com/images/stories/news/2013/08_august/21/bevin.jpg
His education line next to his picture lists only Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and when one scrolls down to see the details of his education it says that he studied Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006-2008, and that he graduated from the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at the MIT Endicott Campus. In fact, the entrepreneurship program in which Bevin was enrolled and from which he graduated has absolutely nothing to do with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or any of its graduate schools.
Bevin falsely used the MIT name because the *conference center where he took his courses* happens to be owned by MIT and is used by its grad schools for some courses, but the conference center is also rented out to other folks. (I guess its a good thing that Bevin didnt also take yoga classes held at the basement of the Harvard Law School building, or else hed claim he attended Harvard as well.)
So because the program was sponsored by the MIT Enterprise Forum (among others) it means that he can claim to have studied at MIT? The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies is affiliated with Harvard University, but if it is one of several sponsors of adult-education courses in Boston it doesnt mean that people who take the courses studied at Harvard.
Bevin claimed to have studied entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologythats the name of a university, not a neighborhood in Cambridge. He added that the courses were at the MIT Endicott Campus, which is a business center that is rented out by MIT. He easily could have described his certification in a way that did not imply that hes an MIT graduate, and used the same second and third paragraphs to describe the program (theres some puffery in the second paragraph, but no dishonesty), and no one could have called him a liar. But he decided that being honest about the program he attended wouldnt cut it, and he had to lie about it.
The Entrepreneurial Masters Program (apparently Bevin even misspelled the name) consists of shelling out $4,000 to attend four days of lectures, and then doing it again for two more years, and after having paid $12,000 to attend 12 total days of lectures over 3 years, they give you a nice diploma that you can show pictures of when asking for political donations. See http://events.eonetwork.org/emp/ The course description sounds like the courses they offer on cruise ships. I doubt very much that this program consisted of a few months of studying on your own time and then four days of lectures; its a four-day-long series of conferences, which, quite cunningly, theyve packaged together with two additional four-day-long series of conferences that the person has to pay for in order to earn the certificate. Its like the Yale Travel Society, but without the Yale professors, and no one could claim that they studied at Yale because they heard some lectures while on a cruise of the Danube.
Im sure that many people consider those $12,000 money well spent, and maybe participants leave there as the greatest entrepreneurs in the world, but I have to tell you that, having three first-cousins who graduated with a BS from MIT during the past 20 years, I know for a fact that one cannot get an MIT diploma by attending 12 days of lectures.
Who would pretend that participating in such program was the equivalent of studying at MIT for three years? Not an honest person, I would say. And if Bevin felt the need to pad his résumé in such an outrageous manner, I dont think hes very proud of his real accomplishments.
Oh, but feel free to continue to blame Mitch McConnell for Bevin’s character flaws.
Interesting. Sounds like he took another course in language parsing from the Clinton Crime Family.