New Mexico State U. Threatens to Revoke Fired Professors’ Degrees

Las Cruces Sun-News: NMSU, fired professors in another fight

LAS CRUCES — In the ongoing dispute between two dismissed professors and New Mexico State University, John Moraros and Yelena Bird now say they are being threatened with revocation of their graduate degrees.

The university claims the two never submitted proof that they were awarded Doctor of Medicine degrees from the Universidad Aut-noma de Ciudad Juárez in 2002. The discovery was part of “a routine audit,” according to almost identical July
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14 letters to Moraros and Bird from Valerie Pickett, director of the Office of Enrollment Management. Pickett was not available Wednesday for comment.

“Our records indicate that we do have a transcript listing the majority of your previous course work, however we do not have a final transcript indicating a Doctor of Medicine degree was awarded to you,” both the letters read.

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