Degree Revoke

[dcan]

This is an interesting topic. Presumably it comes down to academic fraud. Otherwise you would have situations where a school would revoke a politician's degree because they disagree with the politician's stance on this or that topic, and that wouldn't be acceptable.

For a possibly interesting anecdote, I've worked with a military college (CCAF) and they certainly do revoke degrees for cause (though it is rare). A friend of mine was told his degree would be revoked because they suspected an issue with his transfer credit, but it was sorted out and they let him keep it. They also suspend students (equivalent of expulsion) for academic fraud. Because their degree is a requirement for promotion there is a lot of pressure on some to skirt the process. There have been students who look up transcript images on Google and then use Photoshop to doctor a fake transcript in their name and submit it. However, the registrar's office at the school is very familiar with the transcripts they receive so these are always caught (protip: you need the right watermarks on the right thermal paper, good luck with that) and the ramifications can be severe. Not only are they suspended, but their chain of command is notified to take disciplinary action, and as they may have falsified federal documents in the process (depending on what they sthe OSI may be involved as well. So if you are considering falsifying a transcript while in the military, please don't, it will not work out well for you at all. 

I did happen to overhear from the registrars at another school (which shall go unnamed to avoid embarrassment) that they had an issue with a doctor on faculty who was found to have completely falsified his entire residency. They had to scramble to clean up from the fallout, since it called into question the academic integrity of the school itself and by extension all of the courses they had taught during that period. Needless to say he was removed immediately and his credentials revoked. 

There was also an issue about ten years ago where the dean of admissions at MIT was found to have faked her undergrad degree and had her subsequent degrees revoked. So the issue really is, commit academic fraud = revoked degree.