Kansas University has found itself swept up in a South Korean art scandal involving an elite museum curator’s falsified credentials.

A South Korean news service called KU’s University Relations earlier this week, asking whether Shin Jeong-ah had actually earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at KU, as she claimed on her resume.

An investigation revealed that Shin, the now-former head curator of South Korea’s Sungkok Art Museum, had indeed lied about the KU degrees. Though she attended KU classes from 1992 to 1996, she never graduated, said Todd Cohen, University Relations director.

Shin, a professor at a Seoul university, had also falsified a doctorate from Yale University, where she had never registered as a student, South Korean news media reported.

Cohen said the dean of Shin’s university had publicly pointed blame at KU this week, saying KU had never responded to a request to verify Shin’s degrees about two years ago.

KU has no record of the request, Cohen said.

“We obviously would have cooperated if we could have,” Cohen said.

In general, KU contracts its degree verification requests out to National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit organization that handles student records. But Cohen said University Relations occasionally verifies credentials in response to media requests, using records from the registrar’s office.

“We get a lot of calls during the political season,” he said.

Cohen said he recalled a few other cases involving falsified KU credentials, but such incidents are rare.

“Most people probably don’t lie, I hope,” he said.