XPost: soc.college.grad, misc.education, misc.legal   
   From: hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   In article <3fe57076.4760775@news.mv.net>,   
   Alberto Moreira  wrote:   
   >Said  "Tom B. Redman"  :   
      
      
      
   >>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   withdrawn, for publishing translations of papers   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.   
      
      
      
      
      
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   Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University   
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