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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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Sonoma State U. Foundation May Lose $350,000 on Loan to Former Board Member
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April 29, 2007
34 Students at Duke's Business School Face Punishments for Cheating
In what officials say is the biggest cheating scandal in the school’s history, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business found that 34 first-year M.B.A. students cheated on a take-home test, according to The News & Observer, a newspaper in Raleigh, N.C.
Though the test was open book, the professor (whom business-school officials would not identify) noticed an uncanny level of similarity in many of the answers. The school’s judicial board conducted hearings and found the 34 students guilty of inappropriate collaboration on the test. The hearings exonerated four other students.
Nine of the convicted students are facing expulsion, a school official said, and 15 students are to be suspended from the school for one year. In other punishments, nine students will receive a failing grade in the course, and one will receive a failing grade on the exam. The students are likely to appeal. —Jeffrey R. Young
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