Another Background Check Blunder
Here's another for the record books. The dean of admissions at MIT has resigned because she allegedly lied about having a college degree. Well, actually THREE of them. I've seen a few articles on this over the past week. Someone even said that they couldn't believe that she spent such little time in college - she was so smart. Well, if she was so smart, do you think she could have come clean? finished her degree? fessed up? not lied to begin with? instead of living a lie for all of those years?
This stuff always annoys me. There were probably plenty of other qualified people over the years that she competed with and took jobs away from. The Background Checks Blog raises an interesting point here. Even though she joined MIT in 1978, she didn't become dean until 1997. Why didn't they conduct a background check as a standard practice when considering her for promotion? The school could have avoided all of this embarassment.