Fuqua Expels Students Over Copied Tests
Over 30 first-year MBA students at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke Unviersity are now facing severe penalties for having collaborated on the written answers for a take-home test and other class assignments.
The punishments meted out by the School's Judicial Board include expulsions for 9 students and one-year suspensions for 15 others. 9 other students will receive a failing grade for the course the work was for, and 1 will receive a failing grade on the exam in question.
The students have until mid-May to appeal the Judicial Board rulings.
The students got into trouble when one of their professors noticed that the wording of the answers on a number of the take-home tests were almost identical. That discovery prompted a wider review of other class assignments, some of which were also so similar that they suggested students had collaborated on what were supposed to be individual assignments.
Source: "Cheating Incident Involving 34 Students at Duke Is Business School's Biggest Ever," the Chronicle of Higher Education, April 30, 2007
The punishments meted out by the School's Judicial Board include expulsions for 9 students and one-year suspensions for 15 others. 9 other students will receive a failing grade for the course the work was for, and 1 will receive a failing grade on the exam in question.
The students have until mid-May to appeal the Judicial Board rulings.
The students got into trouble when one of their professors noticed that the wording of the answers on a number of the take-home tests were almost identical. That discovery prompted a wider review of other class assignments, some of which were also so similar that they suggested students had collaborated on what were supposed to be individual assignments.
Source: "Cheating Incident Involving 34 Students at Duke Is Business School's Biggest Ever," the Chronicle of Higher Education, April 30, 2007
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