Another Christine O'Donnell embellishment: She misleadingly claims she studied at Oxford

[ProSense]

Another Christine O'Donnell embellishment: She misleadingly claims she studied at Oxford

In another move that will raise further questions about Christine O'Donnell's embellishment of her education record, she claims she studied at the University of Oxford -- but a look at her actual record shows this is at best an exaggeration and at worst an outright falsehood.

O'Donnell's LinkedIn bio page lists "University of Oxford" as one of the schools she attended, claiming she studied "Post Modernism in the New Millennium." But it turns out that was just a course conducted by an institution known as the Phoenix Institute, which merely rented space at Oxford.

What's more, the woman who oversaw Phoenix Institute's summer program at Oxford tells me O'Donnell's claim about studying at Oxford is "misleading."

By itself, O'Donnell's Oxford claim might not matter too much. But the larger context is that O'Donnell has already been nabbed fudging her education record not once, but twice. She claimed for several years to have graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson Unversity, but she actually obtained her bachelor's degree last summer. And in a lawsuit she suggested she was trying for a Master's degree courses at Princeton -- but subsequently acknowledged she hadn't taken a single Princeton graduate course.

O'Donnell's LinkedIn bio page lists the following under education:

Christine O'Donnell's Education

Fairleigh Dickinson University 1989 -- 1993

Claremont Graduate University

Constitutional Government

University of Oxford

"Post Modernism in the New Millennium"

Asked to account for the claim about Oxford, Diana Banister, a spokesperson for O'Donnell, told me it was a reference to a certificate she obtained from a course at Oxford overseen by the Phoenix Instutute, which "runs summer seminar programs at universities around the world." The Phoenix Institute defines itself as an institution that runs summer sessions "on three continents" in the quest to answer the question, "What is it to be human?"

But Chris Fletcher, who oversaw the Institute's 2001 Oxford Summer Programme, which included the course O'Donnell took, tells me the course was not overseen by Oxford.

"We never represented it as a course run by Oxford University," Fletcher, who is now an assistant professor of religious studies at Benedictine University in Illinois, told me. Fletcher said the only connection to Oxford is that they rented space there and organized some lectures with "guest lecturers from Oxford and Cambridge" as well as from other institutions.

"It wasn't an official course of Oxford University," Fletcher said. "It wasn't sponsored by Oxford University. We rented the space."

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Why all the lies?

[treestar]

1. She is truly delusional

Even Palin didn't do shit like this.

[golfguru]

25. Palin has no witchcraft, no mice with human brains,

no Oxford education, Not living on campaign funds....etc.

Palin is down right boring compared to O'Donnell.

[Botany]

2. Sure she got a Roads scholarship

[Hekate]

6. .... to Oxford, Mississippi Beauticians School

[opihimoimoi]

3. ROOKIE BAGGERS constantly make Rookie Mistakes...like LYING

I don't think Merica can afford more ROOKIE GOV'Ts...Bush was a major rookie

[Tippy]

4. The Phoenix Institute is a joke,

"The Phoenix Institute defines itself as an institution that runs summer sessions "on three continents" in the quest to answer the question, "What is it to be human?""

I know my daughter and son-in-law signed up.....big mistake....This outfit is selling degrees, not teaching.

[LynneSin]

10. Isn't that school under investigation for how it scams on College Loans

Figures - Phoenix and O'Donnell a match made in heaven.

[Tippy]

19. They sure are....

And once you sign on dotted line your on the hook for $30,000 plus....

[LynneSin]

24. Well good luck for them getting any money from O'Donnell

:rofl:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

21. LOL! One of my students is writing a research paper on these for-profit institutions

that gouge the American people.

[Tippy]

26. I'd love to read the finished product......

[COLGATE4]

23. It's today's equivalent of a diploma mill. Perfect for our girl

Christine.

[karynnj]

5. Just looking at the lInkedIn list, it is likely that Claremont Graduate is likely false too

It is amazing that she claimed graduate work at very prestigious Universities - Oxford and Princeton, while failing to do the final work to get her BA from an expensive, but not prestigious college. It is highly unlikely that she would be accepted into any of these graduate programs without a transcript and a compelted BA.

[thereismore]

9. She is a grifter. Nothing more. nt

[theothersnippywshrub]

20. She probably postponed her BA because she was having sex while she was in college. n/t

[thereismore]

7. Jesus, she should be sacked based on this alone. This is lying.

But then again, Phoenix is almost the same as Oxford, right? No? Okay then.

[ProSense]

13. Seriously,

it's hard to tell them apart.

[Kingofalldems]

8. She wore oxfords while studying

[Raine1967]

11. HEY! I walked on the Grounds of Columbia and GWU

So I guess I can say I went there too!

And I got Drunk at NYU once. I consider that an advanced course!

[secondwind]

12. SHE WANTS TO BE A WELL-EDUCATED LIBERAL!!!

[yurbud]

14. I attended Caltech, UCLA, Pepperdine, USC, and a bunch of other universities in ONE year

I was working as a messenger at the time.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

15. "Why all the lies?"

I guess they have to do something to counter the fact that this gal is just bat shit crazy.

[theothersnippywshrub]

16. Maybe she was tutored at Oxford Learning in Wilmington.

http://www.oxfordlearning.com/locations/delaware/wilmington/

[tanyev]

17. She'd better get to work if she wants to beat Sarah's record of 5 colleges.

[prolesunited]

18. I conducted a workshop held at Notre Dame

I guess I should put "taught at Notre Dame" on my resume.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

22. She'll get away with it. Republicans can get caught in bed with 5 year olds

and their supporters will always poo-poo the discovery as a "youthful indiscretion." It's amazing the shit they get away with!!!

[Yavin4]

27. I Spent A Weekend on Stanford's Campus

Thus, I went to Stanford.

[fugop]

28. Oh please Jeebus!

PLEASE don't let the GOP force her to drop out of the race. PLEASE! And when is Castle deciding about the write-in thing? It's gonna break my little heart if Christine drops out. Let's just go dark on her nuttiness until the deadline for Castle to do a write-in comes and goes. PLEASE!