Will dismissal from college be showed in my background check for employment?

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Will dismissal from college be showed in my background check for employment?

If I am dismissed from a doctoral program because of plagiarism, will this be showed in my background check for employment?What if I am dismissed but win my appeal and still stay in the program? Will the dismiss charge still be showed in the employment background check?

Asked on June 2, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Arizona

Answers:

SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 11 years ago | Contributor

There is no central repository of these records, so it *shouldn't* show. That said:

1) If anyone at the employer is or becomes aware that you attended that school, they can contact the school to check--i.e. it would be good for you to not mention having attended doctoral program there and not to have anything about it on your Facebook and other webpages.

2) If anything in regards to this is on a webpage somewhere (e.g. at the school; on a social media page of yours or of an associate of yours; etc.) it could potentially come up if anyone does a "Google" search about you.

So even though this would not be a record that one would normally expect to come up, in today's Internet, interconnectd world, it's impossible to guarantee that it will not.


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