New Mexico: Promotion Decision Questioned

by E Wayne Ross on May 9, 2007

Inside Higher Ed: Promotion Decision Questioned

Less than two weeks after a prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology admissions dean resigned amid allegations that she had claimed three degrees she’d never earned, the University of New Mexico is facing scrutiny for promoting an unidentified professor who has since been accused of misrepresenting his/her publication history — and for letting that promotion decision stand after an elected faculty committee unearthed evidence to that effect.