Kean U. President Says Errors Were Made, by Others, on His Résumé

January 23, 2012, 12:43 pm

The president of Kean University, who is the subject of a Board of Trustees investigation into whether he falsified his résumé, has acknowledged that some mistakes were made, according to The Star-Ledger. Dawood Farahi, the president, told the New Jersey newspaper that there were inaccuracies on his past résumés, including claims that he had been acting academic dean at Avila College and that he had published more than 50 technical articles in “major publications.” However, he said he was not responsible for the errors, which he said were made by staff members at Kean who had helped prepare his résumé for accreditation reviews at the university. The assertions that Mr. Farahi had made false claims on his résumé were made by the faculty union, with whom the president has frequently clashed.

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whm3113

This just keeps getting better and better.
wilcoxlibrary

Whats that say about a “leader” who doe not proff read his/her work before passing it on.
sagit

Why on earth would you have a staff member write your CV? I call BS.
11274135

Right.
11274135

Oh, darn those staff people.
drangie

Yep, you gotta watch ‘em every darn minute!
saholloway

The real question is why did he not have a background check before being offered the job? What staff member is responsible for this error?
tee_bee

I’m going to add 25 papers to my CV right now. Then, I’m going to blame my staff. This guy sounds like a graduate of The School of I Fell Into the Lifeboat.
archman

It is difficult to believe that anyone in an academic leadership position would stoop to such moronic arguments as the “I did not know this #$%-ton of credentials were all false and untrue” . Dawood Farahi is so obviously guilty that it would take political manipulation on an earth-moving scale to maintain him in office.

This man must be fired. Immediately. He is a stain on the university, and on academia itself.
7738373863

The dog ate my resume. He didn’t digest it–he regurgitated it, and when it came back up, there were errors on it. Egad!
whm3113

I wonder how Middle States is reacting to this news flash.
drangie

And it was dark!
rlevine

Reminds me of when Charles Barkley said he was misquoted in his autobiography.
pnedry

Do we need a law/rule in Higher Education, like the requirement in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, where the CEO can no longer claim the ‘hayseed defense’ on financial reports, like “I don’t know nothing about them thar’ accounting stuff?” Financial statements are prepared by staffers!!
akprof

Som did the dog sometimes eat his homework as well?
larrylnelson

HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
willynilly

Isn’t it utterly amazing – the stories these people come up with to try to cover up their misdeeds? What obtuse reasoning? This one is actually challanging (for first place this week) the story put out by the Italian Cruise Ship Captain who maintains that he didn’t abandon ship – he fell overboard, was scooped up by a rescue boat and wisked to shore against his strong protestations. I wonder who Mr. Farahi thought was responsibility for checking the accuracy of his resume? A committee of the faculty or himself?
bell1701

Even if his claims are true, which I find very unlikely, he is still responsible for what ends up getting submitted under his name. If he did not proof-read it and was unaware of such glaring “errors”, that’s his problem.

I think Farahi is full of s***. He should be fired and blacklisted.
cbres

Or even proofread.
jsibelius

I used to help faculty members in my department with their CVs all the time. I didn’t write the content, but I helped them develop the format. Sometimes I also helped edit text for clarity and impact. But those faculty members were ultimately responsible for making sure they were accurately represented by their CVs.
thedoctorisin

It’s a new twist on Bart Simpson: ”I did not do it; no one saw me do it; and you cannot prove a thing.”
katisumas

Did this guy take lessons from Ron Paul who stated that he had no idea what was written under his name in his newsletter?

Is this the start of an epidemic such as “I was sleepwalking. I wrote this in my sleep and thought it was a dream”?
katisumas

Oh so true! I first thought of Ron Paul claiming he didn’t know what was in his newsletter, but the captaintrippin and falling into a life boat is just as good. Is it an epidemic?
katisumas

akprof, you’re so passe! The computer ate it! (and perhaps ate him too while other people were inventing his resume?)
katisumas

wow I missed that one!
katisumas

How about the printer scrambling it and coming out with brand new sentences? Evil printer!
katisumas

…which means they had to read it! And it is beyong imagination that someone applying for a job would not read his resume before sending it…
katisumas

In this case he claims he didn’t read it! And why would a staffer come up with imaginary jobs and education?
njprofnj

Farahi’s resume fraud is sweeping in scope. Check out the following website for the evidence, including letters from journals categorically denying that they published or accepted for publication any articles by Farahi.

http://www.kft2187.org/farahi

The site has a letter to Governor Christie asking for an independent investigation and pointing out the potential damage this will have on Middle States accreditation and the NCAA investigation.
johnskm

And shame on Kean (meaning: the search committee) for not vetting this liar properly.
thedoctorisin

Don’t you think this is a tad more serious than whatever garbage Ron Paul allowed in a newsletter?
citizenship

The original resume was lost in a flooded basement of the building. Then the staffer typed in the mistakes while sitting in a dark lifeboat after after falling overboard on the alumni cruise. But the prez shouldn’t be blamed because they’re only doing this because they didn’t like what he said about something else when he invoked his academic freedom…and… and who really reads those things anyway?
thepoormouth2

If Farahi somehow survives this latest scandal–so far the board has taken no action against him–what will it take to remove him? Will he have to murder a faculty, staff member, or student on live TV–and if he does so, will the NJ power bosses and the sycophants still defend him?
jsibelius

…which means that were supposed to read it, not that they actually did read it. All I know is that they accepted the document and I was paid for my work. A few were absent-minded enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if they never bothered to check my work. But again, that doesn’t absolve them of the responsibility for the information in their CVs. Which is to say Mr. President may really not have known what was in his CV, but it’s because he neglected his responsibilities, not because his staff took it upon themselves to bolster his CV for him without his knowledge.