Duke Biz School Punishes 34 for Cheating

Source: ABC News

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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Our Future Business Leaders at work and play.

The White House lies, cheats and steals. They can get a job with GWB.

It's ok to cheat and steal and lie and do every manor of unethical thing, AS LONG AS YOU GET AWAY WITH IT!!

A fish stinks from the head down, and this unethical behavior has seeped into every corner of our lives with republicans in charge.

:kick::kick::kick:

my wife's class in '99?

The currently environment, apparently, includes those in charge that look for and prosecute cheating. Just as it did under Clinton.

The idea that this is just okay only furthers a life of lies and deception. I'm glad they are getting the book thrown at them.

I'm not condoning it, but its not the first time, nor is it the last time, that college students will be caught cheating. And its not just business school students.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D71F3FF931A15756C0A967958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fC%2fCheating

:popcorn:

Business school students who cheat (and most do not cheat) are tomorrow's future Ken Lays and Jeff Skillings.

Such people don't rape women, rather, they rape all of us through their forms of economic terrorism.

I guess not, because that would have been done before due process had taken place.

But now we need to ask, how will the Duke community get through this ordeal?

Will Al Sharpton be making a visit to help heal the community?

But I am told that there is a group of University of Chicago professors who are vaguely and diffusely unsettled by this decision, since it flies in the face of their entire curriculum.

many business/law/engineering students are put under tremendous pressure to succeed. The notion of 'staying competitive' is shoved down your throat from day 1.

Minimizing competition, lots of cooperative/group work, peer support, and so on.

Why is Duke forcing students to be secretive? How very 1949

Getting caught is frowned upon.

at Duke's illustrious Fyou School of Bidness, no less. That is MORE than statistically significant to draw a connection to the systemic problems at the top in this country. These white collar vermin are now breeding like flies.

"Everybody does it" ...:shrug:

A take-home, open-book exam, and they still felt the need to cheat?!

A take-home, open-book exam. Damn.

I just can't get my brain wrapped around this.

A take-home, open-book exam. And they cheated on it?

A take-home, open-book exam.

This is the kind of thing that would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat's dish.

n/t

Like these folks more than a decade ago: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D71F3FF931A15756C0A967958260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fSubjects%2fC%2fCheating
Some things never change.