The Dean of the Stanford Law School and Stanford Law’s Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (Tirien Steinbach) should have immediately resigned after the shout-down of federal judge Kyle Duncan back in April. They are both still at Stanford Law.
In this current case, "the panel examined 12 papers, seven of which listed Tessier-Lavigne as a nonprincipal author." It sounds familiar -- the Dean wanted his name as co-author on many research papers and didn't even bother to read them, counting on honesty and integrity of the principal researchers. He didn't count on dishonesty by those researchers. Oops.
> It sounds familiar — the Dean wanted his name as co-author on many research papers and didn’t even bother to read them, ...
Pretty standard actually. Aspiring postdocs are much advised to include the head of whatever lab as a co-author. A little sucking up never hurts in academia.