And, he said, they will have some attractive alternatives, none of which he named, because a number of solidly credentialed academy members and well-wishers have offered to help.
Along with their diplomas, the academy graduates often carry a valuable credential: a master's license from the Coast Guard.
Early on, she fought to escape her bad marriage and pursue a professional career; later, she fought against an élitist legal academy that looked down on her credentials and her research interests.
But in the academy only the voices that have been credentialed by the profession's gate-keeping mechanisms are heard.
The 61-page report, called "The Heart of the Matter," which was shepherded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and based on meetings held around the country over two years, arrives trailing some of its own controversy, thanks to recent allegations that Leslie C. Berlowitz, the academy's president, had misrepresented her scholarly credentials.
Instead, he was sent to a military academy north of Damascus to acquire the necessary credentials for power and set on the path to become the new ruler-in-waiting.
And as if to prove his non-tribal credentials, Hutton gives a passing nod to academy schools and calls on trade unions to reform further.
Consider the author of the forecast, a top Russian institutional figure with unimpeachable credentials, namely Professor Igor Panarin, a former KGB analyst and currently dean at Moscow's Foreign Ministry academy for future diplomats.
The academy has traditionally been suspicious of genre pictures, and especially fantasy cinema, preferring to establish its grown-up artistic credentials with straight drama.
Few others associated with the academy were willing to speak on the record, though even some who spoke warmly of Ms. Berlowitz suggested that a deliberate attempt to inflate credentials would be unforgivable.
