Professor busted for fraud of degree (inflated resume)?

Professor busted for fraud of degree (inflated resume)?

"Tom B. Redman"	12/15/2003 11:25:21 AM
Do U.S. universities request transcripts (or degree certificates) from new hires? Is there a well-known case of a professor somehow misrepresenting his/her degree (Ph.D.) then later getting busted for it? Is this more common in the industry (below) than in universities? [ZDNet/USA] eBusiness Oct 3, 2002 8:32 AM PT Veritas CFO leaves after resume lie exposed The chief financial officer of Veritas Software has left the company after it was revealed that he had false credentials on his resume. Mountain View, Calif.-based Veritas said Thursday that former CFO Kenneth E. Lonchar falsely claimed to have received an MBA from Stanford University. He is being replaced on an interim basis by Jay A. Jones, senior vice president, chief administrative officer and former general counsel. Veritas said it expects to name a new CFO by the end of the year. --Margaret Kane, Special to ZDNet News __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/



Tam	12/15/2003 8:04:30 PM
It's more common in industry than in university because academics have to publish, and what they publish is often a re-hash of their PhD dissertation. My PhD mentor told me that his department had thrown out a student who had been found to have plagiarized his thesis. Only to find out that he had re-enrolled in another country and was going to be awarded the PhD there. The prof wrote to the other uni, but they didn't respond; the guy got his PhD with the stolen dissertation and went home to Africa and probably because a famous professor or politician or something in his home country, the then-Zaire. In Europe it is almost unheard of to have transcripts sent direct; and mostly they just ask for your diploma. Which of course can be faked. In the USA, many unis have a telephone desk where the validity of degrees can be checked on the spot. I was in the US a couple of weeks ago and wanted free access to the library of my old uni. I went to the reception desk, told them my year and school of graduation, and within seconds they had confirmed it and given me a 5-year reading pass. At the European uni I went to I can't imagine that kind of efficiency. So: no need to reply to those spammers for a fake PhD that could be checked ovr the phone. Go to Kinko's and print your own degree from the University of Kazakhstan. (Isn't a corner of Kazakhstan in Europe, and doesn't the president-for-life of Kazakhstan, Nazarbayev http://www.president.kz/main/mainframe.asp?lng=en want to join the Council of Europe and the EU? Hey, you can probably get dual nationality and a PhD in the same deal. On 15/12/03 19:25, in article 20031215192521.99701.qmail@web41809.mail.yahoo.com, "Tom B. Redman" <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote: Do U.S. universities request transcripts (or degree certificates) from new hires? Is there a well-known case of a professor somehow misrepresenting his/her degree (Ph.D.) then later getting busted for it? Is this more common in the industry (below) than in universities?



junkmail@moreira.mv.com (Alberto Moreira)	12/16/2003 2:40:52 AM
Said "Tom B. Redman" <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> : Do U.S. universities request transcripts (or degree certificates) from new hires? Is there a well-known case of a professor somehow misrepresenting his/her degree (Ph.D.) then later getting busted for it? Universities typically look for published papers. It's the peer review process that makes a researcher, not the title. Alberto.



hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)	12/16/2003 10:55:50 AM
In article <3fe57076.4760775@news.mv.net>, Alberto Moreira <junkmail@moreira.mv.com> wrote: Said "Tom B. Redman" <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> : Do U.S. universities request transcripts (or degree certificates) from new hires? Is there a well-known case of a professor somehow misrepresenting his/her degree (Ph.D.) then later getting busted for it? Universities typically look for published papers. It's the peer review process that makes a researcher, not the title. The busting of someone for fraudulent documentation usually occurs early in the career, when evaluation is still going on. But there is at least one case of a faculty member who was fired, and his degree withdrawn, for publishing translations of papers which had appeared in obscure journals, including what was submitted for his thesis. -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University hrubin@stat.purdue.edu Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558

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