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Jones, a 28-year veteran of the admissions office, listed degrees on her resume from three schools in upstate New York but did not earn any of them, an MIT spokeswoman said. The schools were Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Albany Medical College, and Union College.
In a prepared statement, Jones said she had "misled the Institute about my academic credentials" in applying for her first job at the school in 1979, and "did not have the courage to correct my resume when I applied for my current job or at any time since." She was...
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...
Spokespeople for Union College, in Schenectady, N.Y., and Albany Medical, in New York's capital, both said they had no record of Jones ever attending or receiving a degree from either school.
A biography of Jones at the Web site of the National Association of College Admission Counseling refers to her as "Dr. Marilee Jones, Ph.D." and says she has biology and chemistry degrees from RPI and Albany Medical. She was scheduled to speak at the association's annual conference in September...