Job offer pulled after degree revelation

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    Job offer pulled after degree revelation

    (Excerpt) The man named to run the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center lost the chance after he failed to offer tests or other papers to verify that he completed course work for a master's degree.

    County court officials withdrew their job offer Friday, a week after Troy Hoppes was named superintendent and the same day The Indianapolis Star reported that the master's degree he claimed to have came from a "diploma mill" shut down by the Federal Trade Commission in 2003.

    While stopping short of saying Hoppes deliberately misled them about the University of Ravenhurst diploma listed on his resume, officials suggested that possibility.
    Robert Bingham, Marion County chief probation officer and the man in charge of reforming the troubled juvenile center, took responsibility for the failure to adequately check Hoppes' educational credentials. One reason, he said, was his unfamiliarity with online universities. "This was new to us," he said.

    Checking backgrounds has been a problem at the center. In June, it was revealed that more than one-fourth of staff members who supervised youths had criminal records. Officials criticized what they called inadequate vetting of employees' backgrounds.
    In the latest case, Bingham said the issue was a matter of Hoppes' "presentation" of his credentials. Ron Miller, Marion County court administrator, called it "a question of ethics."

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    Indianapolis Star
    September 9, 2006
     

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