Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (a position she has held since 1997), has resigned because 28 years ago she falsified information on her resume. She had represented herself as having degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, but in fact, had never received a degree from any college.
I recall another similar incident when Mike Campbell resigned from his position as associate director for lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1999. The fact that he had never finished his Ph.D. thesis at Princeton had come to light, yet his Lab resume claimed such a degree from Princeton.
The undoing of these individuals was not their lack of ability. In fact, they were high performers and extremely well thought of. What caused them to lose their jobs was the purposeful misrepresentation of their credentials. “The man of integrity walks securely, but he who takes crooked paths will be found out.” So says Proverbs 10:9.
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