Posted on 12/07/2024 6:36:41 AM PST by Libloather
An employee at the Dallas Police Department was fired following accusations that she lied about her college degree to receive a promotion.
Gina Fowler-Strickland, who was a police report representative, was terminated on Thursday after a disciplinary hearing with the police chief, Fox 4 reported.
The police department said Strickland was fired for “engaging in adverse conduct when she was arrested for the offense of fraudulent, substandard or fictitious degree.”
Strickland was charged in June 2023 with fraud/fictitious degree over allegations she was lying about a postsecondary degree to receive a promotion a year before, court records show, according to Fox 4.
She failed to show up to a court hearing, and a warrant was issued for her arrest in September. The warrant, however, was later recalled, although it is unclear why.
Court records revealed that the district attorney’s office eventually dismissed the charge in November after Strickland completed a pre-trial intervention program.
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Right on both accounts.
I have a BA from a college that no longer exists......sort of.
FTU, Florida Technological University was renamed University of Central Florida a few years after I graduated. My diploma says FTU (1975). It took the dimwits in the state system about 15 years to realize that naming a liberal arts college “Florida Technological University” was kind of stupid.
Not that it matters, but I wonder if the school still has a record of my attendance. I suppose it does.
People can mock American college education but it far outshines the college education of many foreign countries.
We let in way too many immigrants.
[[In Texas, lying about a postsecondary degree to receive a job or a promotion is a class B misdemeanor]]
But in Massachusetts, lying agout heritage to relieve job or promotion apparently is encouraged
“…a warrant was issued for her arrest in September. The warrant, however, was later recalled, although it is unclear why.“
Is she white or black? That may provide an answer.
And those with the melanin exemption
Saw her mugshot….YIKES!
I agree. Often there is an arbitrary limit placed on advancement. Experience counts but they may reach a roadblock without a degree. They may work their way up to shift supervisor, but can't become a department head without the degree.
I cannot understand why she was arrested for lying about a résumé. How is this anything more than a civil, not criminal matter?
I cannot understand why, upon finding out she lied, they didn’t just fire her and be done with it.
When they hired me, I just told them I was degree-less (but I did have the 45 hours minimum required). Having a degree would mean $100.00 more per month (a lot of money then) so I got an external degree for about a grand. Then I decided, what the hell, I’ll go to law school. Now I’m really broke LOL!
Like the Scott Adams cartoon about lying about not going to an elite school by not claiming a degree that you actually have. Is that an ethics violation too?
I knew a guy, long ago, whose undergraduate college had closed a few years after he graduated. The scammers soon found out that, there no longer being a registrar to verify the authenticity of claims, they could sell bogus, back dated, degrees to those wanting to pad their resumes.
I wonder if she shaves before going to work?
Her? WTH is It?
Proud graduate of Whatsamatta U. Home of the fightin’ flying squirrels.
lmao!!
Depends on the job. We had a lady who claimed she had a master’s degree in nursing and was hired to head up an ICU...all the nurses told me and her superiors that she didn’t know how to use the machines needed to treat the patients. Shouda’ been fired. Was transferred to desk job.
Clearly incompetent or an imposter.
The hyphen should have been the first clue.
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