Whom to Hire: Rampant Misrepresentations of Credentials Mandate the Prudent Employer Make Informed Hiring Decisions
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Matejkovic, John E.
Matejkovic, Margaret E.
Issue Date
2006
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39
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|Literature Professor Quincy Troupe was a much-loved member of the University of California at San Diego faculty. He was a prolific and acclaimed poet who was just as committed to working with his students as he was to his scholarship. When Mr. Troupe joined the UC-San Diego faculty in 1990, the university did not confirm his academic credentials, including his representation that he was a graduate of Grambling College. He represented that he had been awarded a bachelor's degree from Grambling in 1963 when, in fact, he had never completed a full semester. Mr. Troupe created this misrepresentation at the outset of his teaching career sometime during the mid-1970s, and the misrepresentation went undetected until it was brought to light during a background investigation in 2003. The genesis of this investigation was an event that should have been one of the highlights of Mr. Troupe's professional endeavors - he was nominated by the Governor of California to be the official poet laureate for the state. Rather, this nomination resulted in the ultimate discovery of Mr. Troupe's misrepresentation of his academic credentials that in turn resulted in his resignation from the esteemed poet laureate position and his retirement from the faculty of UC-San Diego. An academic anomaly? Unfortunately not....
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39 Creighton L. Rev. 827 (2005-2006)
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Creighton University School of Law