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...presidency, highlights the complexities of bringing together thousands of Extension School students enrolled in a broad range of degree and non-degree programs into a single community. Carlos De La Rosa, a full-time student in the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) program in information technology; Craig Sams, a Bachelor of Liberal Arts (ALB) candidate with an emphasis in creative writing and literature; and Richard Gonzalez, an ALM student in environmental management, are all running for president of the organization, which was formed in 2001. “The student association is really new and the evolution of a heavily...
...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 M.I.T. admissions office. (It came out later that she did have a bachelor's degree--but not from the college she listed.) A fake résumé destroyed Marilee Jones' career. But she feared, with some reason, that her true résumé might have torpedoed it from the beginning. And it's hard to believe that someone who "has done a great...
...received his bachelor's and master's degrees in math and engineering at Virginia Tech in 2001. The campus has an extraordinary atmosphere. I am dismayed by those who insist that security is lax. To expect that buildings have badge readers and surveillance cameras is ludicrous. An open campus is essential to university life. Installing numerous security devices would adulterate that atmosphere. Moreover, it would give a false sense of security and would not have prevented this tragedy. A very determined, very deranged young man perpetrated these atrocities. He was intent on mayhem, and he succeeded. It was the courage...
...Several newspaper profiles of Jones, including those in the New York Times and Boston Globe, have reported that she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry and biology from RPI in Troy, N.Y. The registrar at RPI, Sharon Kunkel, said today that Jones attended the school but did not earn any degrees...
...fuming or sighing around the water cooler on Monday, it's because word is spreading about new data that shows women are already earning less than men before the ink on their college diplomas has dried. The study, which looked at more than 10,000 people who received bachelor's degrees in 1999-2000, found that just one year after graduation, women who are working full time earn only 80% as much as their male counterparts do. True, female students tend to major in fields associated with lower earnings, such as education and health professions, which accounts for part...