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The vice dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania resigned Thursday, one day after he was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation about his false claim to have a doctoral degree.</p>
<p>Penn announced the resignation of Doug E. Lynch, who has been a top official in the education program since 2004.</p>
<p>Lynch has claimed on his resume that he received the degree from Columbia University. A faculty website repeatedly referred to him as Dr. Lynch.
<p>I must be the only person at Penn to not think this is the worst crime ever. Have you seen the comments on those news articles (e.g. Alums saying their diploma is worthless). lol</p>
<p>People need to chill out. Sure it was a stupid decision but it sounded like he was doing a good job before all this happened. Not really sure a lie/embellishment changes all that.</p>
<p>@ JohnBlack: "Not really sure a lie/embellishment changes all that. " No but it affects everything else he does from here on out. And university trustees have a duty to kick his butt out on the street. He’s the head educator of a graduate school of Education. And he LIED about his own education.</p>
<p>If you were a Director of a hospital and you find an intern with an online degree, do you keep him/her b/c of their work ethic?</p>
<p>Your lack of perspective is something else here…</p>
<p>I’m not sure I see the relevance of him being in a school of education and lying about his education. They both have the word ‘education’ but that’s about it.</p>
<p>Well I don’t think that is a fair analogy. There are certain risks one takes in a hospital setting. The consequences of failure are rather serious. If we make another analogy…: I am the director of an accounting firm and an employee lied about his accounting PhD but does a great job and the clients are happy, I’m not sure I would fire him. If he has the skills/competencies and is successful, a degree is rather meaningless. To use a pop-culture reference (if you’ve seen it), look at Donald Draper’s outing in Mad Men. </p>
<p>To the contrary, I don’t think I lack a perspective. I just have a different one than everyone else that is commenting on the issue.</p>