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Actually, until the last chapter, M.I.T. looked pretty good in the way it handled Jones' career. Even the academic degrees she faked were fairly modest by the standards of America's most prestigious technical university, but M.I.T. didn't care. She began there in a clerical job, rose through the...
The 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...
The 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...
Yet despite these harsh figures, Jones still chooses to follow a faith of her own.
When faced with a conflicting belief in the lecture halls, Jones says, “I’m forced to come up with an argument about why that’s not true.”