Duke's business school punishes 34 graduate students for cheating

[donsu]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/05/01/duke.cheating.students.ap/index.html


-- The largest cheating scandal ever at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business involved more than a take-home exam, a business school official said Tuesday.

After finding consistencies in exam answers, "the professor said, 'Let me take a look at other stuff that's been handed in,"' said Mike Hemmerich, an associate dean at the business school. A judicial board later investigated the final exam and other assignments, resulting in the punishment of 34 graduate students.

Nine students face expulsion from the competitive two-year program, which will cost first-year students in 2007 almost $50,000 for tuition, books and a laptop computer. Another 15 students could be suspended for one year and receive a failing grade in the course.

Nine others are set to get a failing grade, and one student could receive a failing grade on an assignment separate from the exam. Four others were found not guilty, Hemmerich said.

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A survey released last year by Rutgers University professor Don McCabe showed 56 percent of MBA students acknowledged cheating in 2005. In other fields, 47 percent of graduate students said they cheated.
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cheaters

[Lex]

1. Not surprised.

nt

[Zywiec]

2. I'm not suprised either, as the story reports

A survey released last year by Rutgers University professor Don McCabe showed 56 percent of MBA students acknowledged cheating in 2005. In other fields, 47 percent of graduate students said they cheated.

I'm sure the could catch cheaters at every university.

[ashling]

3. But they'll do great on The Apprentice

and be richly rewarded in true Trumpian fashion


"Duke Business School: you're fired!"

[deutsey]

4. And were then offered executive positions with Halliburton and Bush White House

:eyes:

[BlooInBloo]

5. Another example of America valuing nothingness over knowledge.