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Scandals In Atlanta Public Schools
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution analyzed of the 2008 standardized test scores in the Atlanta Public School System and laid the foundation for coverage of what is considered the largest case of academic fraud in the nation's history.
Tags: No Child Left Behind; Atlanta Public Schools; Cheating; Test Fraud; Academic Fraud
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MBA Mystery in Morgantown
The Mylan Inc. Chief Operating Officer Heather Bresch was awarded an M.B.A. from West Virginia University nine years after having completed just 26 of the required 48 credits. Ms. Bresch is the daughter of West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin and friend of WVU President Michael Garrison.
Tags: lobbyist; Milan Puskar; academic fraud; Morgantown; education; falsify;
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District Lets Years of Misconduct Slide
When Scottsdale Community College fired its music department chair "for purchasing expensive microphones for the college from his son, attempting to cover up the transaction and failing to show up for an electronic music class he was paid to teach," the East Valley Tribune received a tip that the teacher was only part of a bigger story. The investigation uncovered "fraud within the Maricopa County Community College District," including "a performing arts institute that enrolled its professors and clerical employees and their relatives in classes to keep itself operating." There were also major issues in the athletic department, with thousands of dollars missing. Situations such as these had been discovered previously, but the district had taken no action.
Tags: Fraud; academic budget; athletic budget; false enrollment; college budgets
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Unoriginal Sin
A graduate student exposed an offcial at Argosy University in Chicago as having plagiarized large sections of her doctoral project when she earned that degree from Argosy. School officials at first reprimanded the student, finally allowing her to graduate but noting it would go on her permanent academic record. Meanwhile, there was no initial punishment for the official, Bindu Ganga. In the wake of the stories, Ganga was first suspended and then fired and stripped of her doctorate.
Tags: Bindu Ganga; academic fraud; Argosy University-Chicago; plagiarism
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Diploma Mills
This series of stories reveals that top officials in the Department of Homeland Security claim they have degrees from uncredited institutions. Some of these institutions even sell the degrees online with no academic requirements. The personnel managers on the other hand have no policies in place to identify such frauds.
Tags: FOIA Department of Homeland Security; Laura Callahan; Office of Personnel management; diploma; fake degrees
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Eligibility for Sale
An investigation by ESPN revealed how athletes in the revenue-producing sports of men's basketball and football get into college, even when they lack the "academic skills necessary to compete in the classroom... For all the talk about SAT fraud involving players who get others to take scores for them, the greater form of manipulation might be in the area of core classes, in which bogus grades are given to high school athletes in order to get them qualified for NCAA competition. ESPN's report focused on one tiny school in the Queens area of New York City where, it turns out, dozens of future college athletes have gone to get their NCAA eligibility. The school, Christopher Robin Academy, does not have any sports teams but virtually ever academically troubled basketball player in New York City in the past decade -- from former North Carolina star Ed Cota to current NBA player Lamar Odom -- has used this school as a backdoor route to college basketball. There's the regular high school they attend during the week, the one they win prep championships for... then there's Christopher Robin, which they quietly attend on Saturdays or during the summer to pick up valuable core-class credits with little or no work. ESPN exposed this scam and also showed that the for-profit, unaccredited school lies to the public about its credentials... And here's the best part: the NCAA has no problem with the situation. Fearful of lawsuits alleging that the NCAA has no right to pass judgment on the educational standards of any high school, the NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse continues to accept credits and grades from Christopher Robin Academy."
Tags: NCAA; Christopher Robin Academy; grades; credits; sports; scam; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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A Place Hoop Dreams Come True
The major college sports such as basketball and football have major problems with athletes who are not prepared for the academic rigors of college life. This is due primarily to academic fraud, especially when it comes to passing English, math and other core classes. Farrey discovers how it occurs and why the NCAA looks the other way.
Tags: basketball; academics; eligibility; fraud; NCAA; online; CD
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Armed Forces Recruiting Fraud
WFAA's "series uncovered widespread recruiting fraud among Marine, Navy and Air Force recruiters in North Texas. Not only were recruiters lying about the academic qualifications of their enlistees, they were teaching the enlistees to lie about their background, thereby planting the idea that the Armed Forces are corrupt."
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT FOIA undercover falsified academic records diploma mill
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University of Minnesota Basketball Scandal
A Pioneer Press investigative team used personal sources and a computer analysis of NCAA data to uncover vast evidence of academic fraud on the University of Minnesota men's basketball team. The newspaper found the team's members managed repeatedly to violate rules of academic honesty and still maintain the worst graduation rate in its league.
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Bowers charges men's program with violation
The Chronicle's investigation of academic fraud within Baylor University's athletic department prompted an FBI investigation that resulted in the indictment of former Baylor basketball coach Darrel Johnson, on federal charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and mail fraud.
Tags: sports; university; fraud; conspiracy; recruits; athletes; basketball; FBI; Baylor University