The Rise and Fall of the Dean
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KTK
Some buzz developing over the story of the Dean of Admissions at MIT, forced to resign today when someone secretly informed the Institute that she did not have the academic credentials she had listed on her resume when she was hired 28 years previously. She was widely recognized as a leader in the movement to make college admissions less stressful and hyper-competitive (ironically, she had made major efforts to downplay the emphasis on formal credentials; more ironically, her new book stresses that attitude as a means to maintaining integrity in your life), and was popular with the students, but the Institute felt it had no choice.
