Texas A&M's No. 3 administrator presented himself as a warrior-scholar: A former Navy SEAL with a doctorate from Tufts University.Vision 1920 is shocked by this scandal in academia. Tufts clearly committed a FERPA violation in releasing information about Kemos' records to the Eagle.
But records obtained by The Eagle indicate Alexander Kemos never was part of the elite fighting force, and Texas A&M officials confirmed Friday that he doesn't have a doctorate or even a master's degree, which was a posted requirement for the $300,000-a-year position that serves as the top adviser to Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin.
On Friday morning, the day after he was confronted with questions about his background by Loftin in Maine, where the pair were vacationing, he resigned.
"It's a human tragedy," said Jeffrey Seemann, Texas A&M's vice president for research and the chair of the search committee that selected Kemos, who lives in College Station and has a wife and three children.
In a message to the campus Friday afternoon, Loftin said Kemos will no longer serve as senior vice president for administration, effective immediately. He said Kemos cited "a desire to spend more time with his family."
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Not so fast, Kemos sabe
In March, we noted the addition of Dr. Alex Kemos to the TAMU leadership. Kemos was hired for a paltry salary equivalent to a mere 10 English lecturers. Today's Eagle reports that Kemos wasn't Dr. Kemos after all:
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Kemos also faked his credentials and pretended to be an expert in an international conference:
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Dr. Alexander Kemos, Partner, Nordic-American Corporate Development and. Finance Company, gave the second lead presentation titled “The Political Economy of ...
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George Bush China-U.S. Relations Conference:
Development, Energy, and Security
October 22-25, 2007
Washington, D.C
FORUM FINAL REPORT
Forum Title: China-U.S. Agricultural Sustainability Forum – Agricultural Sustainability
with Strategic Partnerships: Platform for Collaboration and Progress
From Page 2 of 3:
"Dr. Alexander Kemos, Partner, Nordic-American Corporate Development and
Finance Company, gave the second lead presentation titled “The Political Economy of Food
Safety Infrastructure and Economics in China.” He advised the U.S. stakeholders to avoid
project mirror images onto the receiving end in China. Dr. Kemos emphasized the importance
of acculturation and mutual understanding as the key to successful collaboration."
This may be the "tip of the iceberg." The entire process should be traced of how the top tier salaries for TAMU and for that matter the entire system achieved their level, politics, ramroding or merit? Particularly, the two Professor titles that rank above the President and with the Athletic Directors. Harvey
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