![]() He was hailed as a moral exemplar, whose courage and conviction could lead as from the moral abyss. Some viewers suggested that he write an ethics book, or give a lecture to Congress. The lecture was recorded on video, and posted on YouTube, where it made Quinn a symbolic standard-bearer for honesty. If they did not have a previous record and agreed a take four-hour ethics course, their transcripts would not contain any record of their cheating ways. First, however, he delivered a stern and searing lecture in class about cheating and integrity, demanding that the students who got the answers in advance come forward and admit their misconduct. ![]() Quinn to identify the hundreds of students who had received the questions, and he resolved to disregard the tainted midterm and make his students take a new one. ![]() The suggested questions in textbook instructor guides are often available online, and these were. Quinn’s suspicions that something was amiss were confirmed a few days later, after a student left in his mailbox a list of sample exam questions the publisher of the textbook used in Quinn’s course includes in its instructor supplement. As he graded the mid-term, he discovered that the percentage of correct answers were suspiciously high. In case you also missed the story, here are facts: Quinn teaches a 615 student strategic management class at the University of Central Florida. The lionized professor and Youtube sensation in the incident, Richard Quinn, was a worse ethics violator that the students that he declared “disgusted him.” Now that I’ve arrived at the party, however, I intend to be the official pooper.
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