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Boston University dean to resign
By Andrew Ryan, GLOBE CORESPONDENT
The dean of the Boston University College of Communication has agreed to resign his post even though a committee investigating whether he embellished on his resume found that he had done nothing wrong, officials said Wednesday.
The University sent "confidential" letters to communications faculty saying that John J. Schulz would step down as dean on Oct. 15 but remain a member of the school's faculty, said university spokesman Stephen Burgay.
Schulz declined to discuss his resignation in detail. "It was my own decision," he said. "There was no pressure."
The accuracy of Schulz's resume was questioned by Renata Adler, a professor in BU's journalism program, in e-mails she sent to him and other faculty members. Schulz came under fire when the Globe reported in May on the controversy swirling through the College of Communication.
Among the concerns was a claim on his resume that he was one of only two of 19 Oxford doctoral student to win approval of their dissertation in social studies in 1981. In fact, some 30 students in social studies received doctorates that year. Schulz said he should have specified international relations and that 19 was a typo.
