Potentially?

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I hadn't heard this story about MIT firing its Dean of Admissions not for any shortcomings in her job performance but for having lied 28 years ago and said she had a college degree when she first applied for a low-level position at MIT. I think Kevin Carey says most of what needs to be said about the irrationality of this and the broader social and cultural obsession with the potentially meaningless bachelor's degree.

The best answer I've seen in this stupid scandal is that the cornerstone of the Academy is credentialing. If they don't have that, they have nothing. Truth. But I'm not sure that the person who said that had a Master's degree, so...