August 3, 2007

Changed Grades Prompt Indictments

By MATT PETRIE and ELYSE ASHBURN

Two former administrators at Touro College and eight other people have been indicted for their alleged roles in a cash-for-grades scheme at the college, in New York.

According to a statement released in July by the Manhattan district attorney, a former director of admissions and a former director of the computer center at the college's Brooklyn campus had accepted payments of $3,000 or more since 2003 to improve grades, delete courses never completed, or forge degrees

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