Cal State-Long Beach Heeds Call to Investigate Professors' Online Biographies

An essay by a film professor at California State University at Long Beach that questions the credentials of his colleagues is stirring controversy on the campus — and sparking investigations.

The essay, written by Brian Alan Lane, an associate professor of film, accuses three of his colleagues in the department of film and electronic arts of having "outright lies or misleading statements of fact" in their online biographies. Mr. Lane said he was pursuing the matter because

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