Marilee Jones joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979 and became its dean of admissions in 1997. She co-wrote a book for parents and students, Less Stress, More Success. In April 2007 MIT learned that she did not hold the degrees she had claimed.
She resigned. “I misrepresented my academic degrees when I first applied to MIT 28 years ago,” she said. Daniel Hastings, MIT’s dean for undergraduate education, said: “But the integrity of the Institute is the highest priority, and we cannot tolerate this kind of behavior.”