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Elections for the Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA), the school’s student government, will come to a close on Monday after almost a week of intense debates between candidates for the hotly contested board positions. The election, in which three candidates are competing for the presidency, highlights the...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology does not feel the same way. It has abruptly accepted the resignation of its dean of admissions after she confessed that she didn't have the undergraduate or graduate degrees she had added to her résumé over the 28 years since she joined the...
The process by which Jones became dean of admissions at M.I.T. looks from afar, at least, like American meritocracy working the way it is supposed to work. Once she was in the door and proving her competence, nobody gave a hoot about her résumé, which is why her fabrication...
What a pity, though. M.I.T. has lost an apparently great dean at a time when you don't read a lot about successful university administrators. And, it turns out, she is one who had a personal as well as professional understanding of the stresses of our résumé culture. It...
Instead of dumping her, M.I.T. might want to consider giving Jones an honorary degree. We're coming up on the season when universities hand out these things with abandon, often to people who never saw the inside of a classroom at this, or sometimes at any, university. These folks get...