An item from the Associated Press caught my eye in the newspaper this morning. It could be from the "truth is stranger than fiction" file, I daresay.The report says the dean of admissions at one of the country's most prestigious institutions of higher learning has been asked to step down for allegedly falsifying her own resume.
Yes, you read that correctly. Or as humor columnist/author/baby boomer Dave Barry would say, "I am not making this up."
The woman has been employed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 28 years. The story says she "misrepresented her education," claiming she had earned degrees from three colleges. Apparently she did not graduate from any of them.
And last year she even co-authored a book, "Less Stress, More Success : A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond."
OK. As the mother of a daughter who just went through the college application process last year and a son who is about to embark on the college application process in the fall, I cannot find the words to describe how appalled I was to read about this woman.
How could she have pulled the wool over MIT administration officials' eyes for almost three decades?
I am shaking my head.
3 comments:
What I find amazing is that she was able to do obviously good work (28 years...geez) without the formal education she lied about. So...does this mean MIT's requirements for the position in the first place were far too stringent? And don't you just love the word "misrepresented?" Talk about sugar coating the truth...she lied!!!
yes, she did sugar coat the truth! Amazing story.
As Joan said, clearly this woman was able to do the job through the "probationary" period and for all of those ensuing years.
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