on april 23, 2007, jones resigned her position after mit learned she had fabricated her academic degrees from union college and rensselaer polytechnic institute when she first applied for an entry-level admissions officer position with mit in 1979 and she had fabricated "a degree" from albany medical college "after she was hired." mit administrators were alerted to the discrepancy on or around april 16, 2007. mit has not released the name of the person or persons who alerted them about jones's background. jones issued a statement on the mit web site, in which she admitted to wrongdoing: