<p>"The dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who had counseled students applying to colleges not to try to 'measure up to everybody elses standards,' resigned from her post today after acknowledging that she had padded her own résumé.</p>
<p>"Marilee Jones, who was in charge of the office that decides who gets in to the prestigious university and who does not, at a time of fierce competition for entrance to the best colleges, admitted to her supervisors that she had 'misrepresented her academic degrees to the Institute,' school officials said today. . .</p>
<p>"Ms. Jones had claimed on her résumé that she had received degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, but in fact she had not."</p>
<p>She had worked there for 28 years. Probably no one checked when she was first hired, and didn't bother to check later on because she was an internal hire.</p>
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<p>I get the feeling she confessed only to salvage what little was left of her reputation. But I doubt it'll help; as hsmomstef said, who will hire her now? Save McDonalds...</p>
<p>I'm sure she is still a great worker, so she lied 28 years ago, who gives a crap, I lie all the time (little things). The fact is, that if she wasn't good enough to be the admissions dean, then she would not have been appointed the position.</p>
<p>According to the Harvard Crimson, she claimed to have degrees from three schools, including a Ph.D. She in fact attended only one of the schools, RPI, and left without a bachelor's degree.</p>
<p>Her statement on the subject asks that we "respect her privacy." Pardon me for finding that request absurd under the circumstances. If I were the district attorney in Cambridge, I would consider bringing an action for criminal fraud.</p>
<p>Today, many companies (and perhaps educational institutions, too) run background and credit checks on potential hires before they can actually begin their jobs. In fact, more companies than you would expect go so far as to have handwriting experts analyze the handwriting of their potential hires to try to assess their personality traits and mental capabilities.</p>
<p>Here's a relevant section of the Masachusetts Penal Code</p>
<p>Chapter 266: Section 30. Larceny; general provisions and penalties </p>
<p>Section 30. (1) Whoever steals, or with intent to defraud obtains by a false pretence, or whoever unlawfully, and with intent to steal or embezzle, converts, or secretes with intent to convert, the property of another as defined in this section, whether such property is or is not in his possession at the time of such conversion or secreting, shall be guilty of larceny, and shall, if the property stolen is a firearm, as defined in section one hundred and twenty-one of chapter one hundred and forty, or, if the value of the property stolen exceeds two hundred and fifty dollars, be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than two years; or, if the value of the property stolen, other than a firearm as so defined, does not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars, shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars; or, if the property was stolen from the conveyance of a common carrier or of a person carrying on an express business, shall be punished for the first offence by imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than two and one half years, or by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than six hundred dollars, or both, and for a subsequent offence, by imprisonment for not less than eighteen months nor more than two and one half years, or by a fine of not less than one hundred and fifty nor more than six hundred dollars, or both. </p>
<p>(2) The term “property”, as used in the section, shall include money ...</p>