June 4, 2009
In Researcher's Background, Some Warning Signs
Did the U. of Louisville look carefully enough at Robert Felner's track record?
When Robert D. Felner applied to become dean of education at the University of Louisville in 2003, he carried a genuinely impressive vita. But two of the most recent large grants listed on that vita could not have survived close scrutiny —and it isn't clear that Louisville's search committee scrutinized them at all.
First, the impressive part: After dropping out of high school in the mid-1960s, Mr. Felner managed to be admitted to the University of Connecticut, where he
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