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Degrees of impropriety?
Today's Inside Higher Ed reports that a Carnegie Mellon University dean has resigned on account of a degree that appears to have been wrongly awarded to a student who hadn't earned the requisite number of credits. As the article notes, this is the third such controversy in recent months, following similar incidents at West Virginia University and Virginia Commonwealth University. But to CMU's credit (no pun intended), its response seems to have been notably quicker than that of WVU and ODU. The details are still crystallizing, but given the number of cases that are now surfacing, the review CMU has undertaken to see if this was "an isolated case" might be a model for boards of other institutions looking to nip such problems in the bud.
Posted by Charles Mitchell at August 19, 2008 09:48 AM
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