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...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 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...
...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 was not caught for 28 years. What ultimately did Jones in was a different kind of meritocracy, the kind that trades in what might be called paper merit. Degrees, test scores, recommendation letters: these are all artificial substitutes for real merit. Sometimes the artificial substitute is unavoidable. When many thousands...
...course, they did care, and she did lie. And she maintained the lie for 28 years until she was outed by anonymous sources. And this wasn't just any lie. It was a lie in the very area in which Jones' job requires her to expect the truth. The dean of admissions, of all people at a university, has to be pretty firm on the question of résumé padding...
...move came a day after Law School Dean Elena Kagan announced that the school’s food company, Sodexho, is also “moving toward using cage-free eggs...
Joining former Vice President Al Gore ’69, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in the 217-year-old academy are Fikes Professor of Pediatrics Nancy C. Andrews, Coolidge Professor of History David G. Blackbourn, Dean for the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87, Bernbaum Professor of English Literature Leo Damrosch, Professor of Astronomy Lars E. Hernquist, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design Rem Koolhaas, University Art Museums Director Thomas W. Lentz, Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, Dean of Engineering...