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College admission dean fired for fibbing
Posted by Fired Fred on April 27, 2007 3:58 PM
The problem I have with people who get where they are with a little help from a padded résumé is that they pushed aside someone who really did earn their degrees. Marilee Jones may have been the world's greatest college admissions dean, but MIT was right to can her for lying.
It wasn't just the one fake degree she put on her application 28 years ago for a job where she didn't need a degree. Over the years she dropped two more phony degrees into her work history.
Someone finally called her out about her lengthy deception...
A senior MIT official said that by claiming degrees she had never earned, Jones could no longer lead an admissions office that occasionally rescinds the acceptance letters sent to applicants who are untruthful about their own accomplishments.They should have kept her on the job. As someone who's been lying for years, she must have been awfully good at spotting her own behavior in others.
MIT was alerted to questions about Jones' credentials in a phone call, from someone he declined to identify, to another dean. An inquiry determined Jones had at various points claimed degrees from Union College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Albany Medical College, all in New York, but in fact had no degrees from any of those institutions.