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Other researchers, in fields from philosophy to biology, have gone further still, setting up new peer-reviewed journals founded on open access. Among these are top journals in some fields, including the Journal of Machine Learning Research founded at MIT and flagship journals PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine of the...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s dean of admissions, Marilee Jones, resigned yesterday and confessed to the ultimate sin of her profession: lying on an application.
Jones, who had led the admissions office since 1998, falsely claimed degrees at three schools in upstate New York, an MIT spokesman said. In reality, Jones briefly attended just one of the schools, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and never enrolled at the other two.
In a prepared statement, Jones said she had “misled the Institute about my academic credentials” in applying for her first job at MIT in 1979, and “did not have the courage to correct my resume when I applied for my current job...
“This is a sad and unfortunate event,” Daniel E. Hastings, the dean for undergraduate education, said in a statement. “But the integrity of the Institute is our highest priority, and we cannot tolerate this kind of behavior.”