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.