This is the kind of thing that makes us nervous about folks from Massachusetts (Union: schools, university)

[DavidoftheNorth]

Thursday, April 26, 2007
MIT dean of admissions resigns for falsifying resume

(File/Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)

Marilee Jones, shown above in a 2004 file photo, resigned Monday as dean of admissions at MIT.

By Marcella Bombardieri and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff

Marilee Jones, MIT's dean of admissions who has spoken out nationally against the craze over beefing up teens' resumes, has resigned after 28 years at the school for misrepresenting her academic degrees, university officials said today.

Jones listed on her resume that she had degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, but she had no degrees from any of those schools, said MIT chancellor Phillip Clay.




YOUR VIEW: Have you padded your resume?



In a statement posted on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's website, Jones said she did not "have the courage to correct my resume" when she applied in 1997 for her current job, where she has become perhaps the most prominent admissions director in the country. Jones has kept a popular blog and spoken widely about restoring the joys of youth to young people obsessed with their resumes...
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/cit...an_of_adm.html

What'll they think of next?

[ontheroad]

Do you really think this is a MA issue, or an academic issue or a human issue?

[DavidoftheNorth]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

Do you really think this is a MA issue, or an academic issue or a human issue?

Yes to all.

[irishmom]

They just had a guy who was an ballistics expert witness in many criminal trials kill himself here when it was found that he hadn't any of the degrees in his resume...they now have to review all the cases he was ever involved with. So it's Maryland also.

[ontheroad]

If it is all, is there a specific reason you singled out MA?

Yes MIT is in MA but do you have other reasons?

Originally Posted by DavidoftheNorth

Yes to all.

[DavidoftheNorth]

Well, ME has historically had a bit of a strained relationship with MA, for a number of reasons, and this just appears to be another confirmation. I know that there are some good people in MA, so I don't really mean to sound like I'm condemning the entire state.

[ontheroad]

I hope not!

I have been a resident of 3 of the New England states--although all unique, I don't favour one more than the other but try to understand their uniqueness. I hope to add Maine to the list.

Originally Posted by DavidoftheNorth

Well, ME has historically had a bit of a strained relationship with MA, for a number of reasons, and this just appears to be another confirmation. I know that there are some good people in MA, so I don't really mean to sound like I'm condemning the entire state.

[anncat]

Is this why people from MA don't like folks from Maine?
Pretty judgmental I think.

[DavidoftheNorth]

Probably - they know that we're wise to their ways!

[irishmom]

Originally Posted by DavidoftheNorth

YOUR VIEW: Have you padded your resume?

Actually you have to wonder who was out to get this woman. I mean she got away with it for 28 years and all.