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MIT dean of admissions confesses fraud, resigns

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, April 27, 2007

Marilee Jones, dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., resigned Wednesday after university officials discovered she had fabricated her academic credentials.

Jones’ resume stated that she had earned degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College and Albany Medical College, but MIT administrators said these were all false claims. After receiving a phone call last week suggesting that the university investigate Jones’ credentials, MIT officials determined that Jones had misrepresented her academic record. Jones, whose...

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