Unless Roxanne meant Playa Hatin’ Degree, looks like she’s being called out. Daily News also! Bol’s gonna gave a field day with this one . Link
One problem: Virtually everything about the Daily News’ heartwarming “projects-to-Ph.D.” story appears to be false.
An investigation by Slate has revealed:
* According to Warner, neither it nor any of its subsidiary record labels ever had a contract with Shanté, and it was not obligated to pay for her education. Indeed, there’s no evidence that it ever did.
* Shanté—real name Lolita Shanté Gooden—doesn’t have a Ph.D. from Cornell or anywhere else. Indeed, she admitted it in an interview with Slate. And Cornell has no record of Gooden (or “Shanté”) ever attending or receiving a degree.
* According to Marymount Manhattan College records, Shanté enrolled there but dropped out less than four months later without ever earning a degree.
* New York state records indicate that no one named Lolita Gooden or Roxanne Shanté is licensed to practice psychology or any related field.In the course of several phone interviews and exchanges over Facebook’s internal e-mail system, Shanté—who refers to herself as “Dr.” and “doctor”—admitted that she never received a Ph.D. The Daily News, which trumpeted the false accomplishment in its headline, made a “mistake,” she said. And she insisted that she received an M.A. from Cornell. “I got my master’s in psychology. I didn’t complete my Ph.D.,” she admitted. But according to Cornell records, provided through a service called National Student Clearinghouse to which the university directed me, Cornell “was unable to locate either a degree or enrollment record for the subject of your verification request.”
