When Cristi Turpin completed her doctoral dissertation and defended it before her committee at Southern Illinois University (SIU), she assumed she had a doctorate in the bag. But the university’s computer system continued to show she hadn’t earned her doctorate. So the company that hired her then fired her for lying on her job résumé.
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