NY politician Inez Dickens lied about Howard University degree
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Democratic Assemblywoman Inez Dickens has spent years falsely insisting she was a graduate of Howard University when she never actually completed a degree there — or anywhere, The Post has learned.
Dickens is currently looking to leave her longtime Assembly home and is locked in a fierce primary for the Harlem City Council seat being vacated by police-defunder Kristin Richardson Jordan.
Dickens “completed her studies at Howard University in Washington, D.C,” reads her official Assembly website.
A 2005 voter guide from the city Campaign Finance Board indicates Dickens had a “degree” from Howard University.
In a Citizens Union questionnaire that same year Dickens said “Education: Howard University (BA)” In another CU questionnaire from 2009 she also boasted about graduate work at the elite University of Chicago — whose school registrar told The Post she had never graduated or been enrolled there.
![Democratic Assemblywoman Inez Dickens has spent years insisting she was a graduate of Howard University when she never actually completed a degree there, The Post learned.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/NYPICHPDPICT000004936578.jpg?w=1024)
![Howard University has many distinguished alumni — but not Assemblywoman Inez Dickens.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/NYPICHPDPICT000012431164.jpg?w=1024)
Dickens’ CFB voter guide entry this year does not list any information about her education.
Dickens’ campaign said the Chicago work had been a “federal Housing and Urban Development management certificate,” and confirmed she never received a degree from Howard.
They chalked up the educational discrepancies to “simple errors.”
“Inez has attended various institutions to receive relevant certificates so that she can further her education,” a rep said.