Who would have thought that doing too well on a test could get you in trouble?
Certainly not Tony Williams. After passing a new online test on ethics required of all state employees, the tenured professor in the English department at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale received a notice from his university ethics officer and from the state inspector general that he was not in compliance with state ethics regulations, a failure that state officials said could result in punishment that included dismissal. The reason? He had completed the test too quickly.
So says a January 23, 2007 Chronicle of Higher Education article. The Bureaucracy Club takes note.
(Thanks to investigator Donald Frazier for bringing this to our attention.)