MIT Admissions Dean Lied On Resume in 1979, Quits

"It's amazing that she only spent that much time in college. She's really smart," said Michael Behnke, the admissions dean at the University of Chicago and Ms. Jones's predecessor at MIT. "She's really been a leader in the profession. She was a leader when she work...

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Published inThe Wall Street journal. Eastern edition
Main Author Keith J. Winstein and Daniel Golden
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, N.Y Dow Jones & Company Inc 27.04.2007
EditionEastern edition
Subjects
Appointments & personnel changes
College Admission
College admissions
College Applicants
Credentials
Deans
Educational leadership
Extracurricular activities
False information
Higher education
Jones, Marilee
Part Time Students
Resignations
Resumes
School administration
Standardized Tests
Students
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Study
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Summary:"It's amazing that she only spent that much time in college. She's really smart," said Michael Behnke, the admissions dean at the University of Chicago and Ms. Jones's predecessor at MIT. "She's really been a leader in the profession. She was a leader when she worked for me. Very creative. Obviously, too creative," he said. Bruce Poch, the dean of admissions at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., said the financial-aid scandals and revelations about Ms. [Marilee Jones]'s falsified degrees will likely prompt MIT and other universities to check resumes more closely. Such scrutiny can be "fairly casual" in academia, he said, particularly in lower-level jobs such as the one in which Ms. Jones began her MIT career. In 1997, Ms. Jones was promoted to dean of admissions and launched a national career as a spokeswoman for easing the stress of college admission. With a Philadelphia pediatrician, she is the co-author of a 2006 book, "Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond." In a statement, the book's publisher, the American Academy of Pediatrics, said it "continues to stand behind the information and positive messages presented in the book."
ISSN:0099-9660