A professor specializing in honesty, Francesca Gino — fired for dishonesty.

This latest headline from trouble-plagued Harvard puts higher education’s problems in a nutshell.

Not only do many Americans believe higher education is elitist, but increasingly they’re concluding it’s also not very good at its job, or even harmful.

And with reason.

Gino, a Harvard Business School behavioral scientist who studied (of all things) honesty, was stripped of tenure and fired because of academic dishonesty, the first Harvard professor so treated since the 1940s.

Investigators found problems with several of her more famous studies were the result of research misconduct.

Nor is she Harvard’s only problem child: Claudine Gay had to step down as the school’s president amid her own plagiarism scand

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