[A-List] I Love this one...MIT Dean Exposed

[Omahkohkiaayo_ipoyi <omahkohkiaayo@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is priceless. It not only shows anyone can put on a suit, let others
with real skills do the real work and take credit for their work (that is
what administrators do). It also shows what a total fucking fraud bourgeois
academia and all the degrees in many areas really are. In the areas from
which administrators are typically drawn--management, Ed Leadership, MBAs,
Education, Sociology, and I include my own area of Economics, one can talk
any kind of shit, no one is going to die with a fuck-up, and get away with
it. You take it in, spit it out and forget it moving on to the next crammed
course and cramming for its exams. From Rocks for Jocks 101 to Self-esteem
Studies 204 to some bullshit course named and tailored from some scholar
despot's dissertation topic or perhaps "research"/hobby area, with entirely
subjective exams, often graded by some exploited grad student seeking also
seeking to become a pampered scholar despot, with many of the professoriate
never having been anywhere (except to conferences in exotic locales and
5-star hotels) and never having actually done real work in their lives
(straight from high school to college to grad school to teaching to tenure)
it is mostly bullshit dressed up with robes, "Pomp and Circumstance",
Graduation exercises etc. In my own case the only degress I have any pride
in are my pilot's licenses because there are very concrete very real and
very deadly tests--and consequences--of competence and incompetence. At the
grad level, you find your own personal area of interest, your thing, turn
it into a thesis or dissertation topic, find an advisor in the same area
you can stand, the advisor puts together a committee mostly with his/her
buddies on it, you turn tricks for your advisor, never suggest that your
advisor's life work is a pile of shit and never crank out anything
seriously challenging your advisor's life work, keep your mouth shut, go to
conferences in your discipline to network and bootlick the "Great Ones",
and put in some time and off you go: another product and clone of academia
with "titles", "degrees", "academic awards" and "publications" in venues
that only fellow clones bother to read.

Then you get to use--even insist on--your title Professor, Doctor, Dean,
President, etc as if that title, alone, not only "credentials" you, it also
"credentials", and even leverages, via fallacy of appeal to "authority",
whatever kind of shit--personally safe shit-- you chose or dare to say or
write.

This is especially priceless in that it is MIT--a place so full of itself
and its reputation . And by the way, I wonder if they noticed the "national
security" implications: With all the ultra-secret work done at MIT, this
woman was in a key position to not only know who has been recruited, but
also into what programs and what research work/projects. I wonder if any
foreign intelligence services found out about her a long time ago (as the
Mossad did with Clinton and Lewinsky by bugging Lewinsky's phone and
forcing the calling off of a mole hunt for a Mossad mole code-named
Mega--still in place likely) and did some extortion.

Jim C.




Dean at M.I.T. Resigns, Ending a 28-Year Lie 

Chitose Suzuki/Associated Press 

Marilee Jones, who arrived at M.I.T. in 1979, became well known as a leader
of the movement to tame the college admissions frenzy. 

By TAMAR LEWIN Published: April 27, 2007 Marilee Jones, the dean of
admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became well known
for urging stressed-out students competing for elite colleges to calm down
and stop trying to be perfect. Yesterday she admitted that she had
fabricated her own educational credentials, and resigned after nearly three
decades at M.I.T. Officials of the institute said she did not have even an
undergraduate degree. 

?I misrepresented my academic degrees when I first applied to M.I.T. 28
years ago and did not have the courage to correct my résumé when I applied
for my current job or at any time since,? Ms. Jones said in a statement
posted on the institute?s Web site. ?I am deeply sorry for this and for
disappointing so many in the M.I.T. community and beyond who supported me,
believed in me, and who have given me extraordinary opportunities.? 

Ms. Jones said that she would not make any other public comment ?at this
personally difficult time? and that she hoped her privacy would be
respected. 

Ms. Jones, 55, originally from Albany, had on various occasions represented
herself as having degrees from three upstate New York institutions: Albany
Medical College, Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In
fact, she had no degrees from any of those places, or anywhere else, M.I.T.
officials said. 

A spokesman for Rensselaer said Ms. Jones had not graduated there, though
she did attend as a part-time nonmatriculated student during the 1974-75
school year. The other colleges said they had no record of her. 

Phillip L. Clay, M.I.T.?s chancellor, said in an interview that a college
degree was probably not required for Ms. Jones?s entry-level job in the
admissions office when she arrived in 1979. And by the time she was
appointed admissions dean in 1997, Professor Clay said, she had already
been in the admissions office for many years, and apparently little effort
was made to check what she had earlier presented as her credentials. 

?In the future,? he said, ?we will take a big lesson from this experience.?


Since last fall, Ms. Jones had been making speeches around the country to
promote her book, ?Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding
Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond,? written with a
pediatrician, Dr. Kenneth R. Ginsburg. The book had added to her reputation
as a kind of guru of the movement to tame the college admissions frenzy. 

?Less Stress, More Success? addresses not only the pressure to be perfect
but also a need to live with integrity. 

?Holding integrity is sometimes very hard to do because the temptation may
be to cheat or cut corners,? it says. ?But just remember that ?what goes
around comes around,? meaning that life has a funny way of giving back what
you put out.? 

Professor Clay said the dean for undergraduate education, Daniel Hastings,
received information 10 days ago questioning Ms. Jones?s academic
background. M.I.T. officials would not say who had provided the
information. 

?There are some mistakes people can make for which ?I?m sorry? can be
accepted, but this is one of those matters where the lack of integrity is
sufficient all by itself,? Professor Clay said. ?This is a very sad
situation for her and for the institution. We have obviously placed a lot
of trust in her.? 

On the campus, where Ms. Jones was widely admired, almost revered, for her
humor, outspokenness and common sense, students and faculty members alike
seemed both saddened and shocked. 

?It?s like a Thomas Hardy tragedy, because she did so much good, but
something she did long ago came back and trumped it,? said one friend,
Leslie C. Perelman, director of the M.I.T. program in writing and
humanistic studies. 

Mike Hurley, a freshman chemistry student, said, ?It was surprising,?
adding, ?Everyone who was admitted here probably knows her, at least her
name.? 

Mr. Hurley said that the admissions office had been unusually accessible,
with Ms. Jones?s ?bright? personality and blogs for incoming students. 

?Whenever someone?s integrity is questioned,? he said, ?it sets a bad
example, but I feel like the students can get past that and look at what
she?s done for us as a whole.? 

Rachel Ellman, who studies aerospace engineering, said, ?I feel like she?s
irreplaceable.? 

Ms. Jones had received the institute?s highest honor for administrators,
the M.I.T. Excellence Award for Leading Change, and many college admissions
officers and high school college counselors said yesterday that whatever
her personal shortcomings, her efforts deserved respect. 

?She?s been working and presenting a lot of important ideas about our
business,? said Rod Skinner, director of college counseling at Milton
Academy, the Massachusetts prep school. ?What I?m hoping is that the
quality of the research and the book will hold up.? 

Ms. Jones was hired by the admissions office in 1979 to recruit young
women, who at the time made up only 17 percent of the institute?s
undergraduates, compared with nearly half today. 

Since she entered the field, admissions to M.I.T. and other elite
institutions have become increasingly competitive, and she made her mark
with her efforts to turn down the flame of competition. 

Among other things, she told students that they did not need perfect SAT
scores to get into M.I.T. She also redesigned the institute?s application
form, leaving less space for students to list their extracurricular
activities, so as not to imply that every student needed 10 activities to
fill the 10 lines that used to be there. 

Competition remains fierce, though. For the coming fall, M.I.T. accepted 12
percent of 12,443 applicants. 

Those who attended this month?s events for admitted students said Ms. Jones
had been in good spirits, especially at a Saturday night finale. There, Ms.
Jones, who in younger days was a torch singer at upstate New York clubs,
took part in a ?battle of the bands,? singing, ?You Can?t Always Get What
You Want.? 

Christy McKerney contributed reporting from Cambridge, Mass., and Sara
Rimer from Boston. 

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