"According to a lawsuit filed in L.A. Superior Court, students pay $18,000 to $23,000 in tuition to receive 900 hours of instruction from an accredited school."
and...
"The plaintiffs claim, however, that they didn't receive 900 hours of instruction and that the schools attained accreditation only after manipulating their job placement rates. Specifically, the schools are alleged to have offered students gift cards to Target and Best Buy if students signed self-employment forms and misrepresented sales clerk positions at Apple and Guitar Center stores as "creative positions."
From: Gardner, E. (2010, December 9). Lawsuit claims L.A. film school overstated jobs. Retrieved from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101209/film_nm/us_school
I wonder why we don't bring fraud charges against students who plagiarize. This is particularly relevant at public universities, like mine: any student who cheats, particularly when receiving any kind of financial aid, is misappropriating state funding. Say, do any law professors read this blog?
ReplyDeleteThey don't allow for that because most of the students are too young to be sued, still wards of their parents or legal guardians....that sort of pish-tosh. Your only solutions are exta-legal; either find a man who will do "dirty deeds, done dirt cheap" or read up on certain nasty subjects, and become that guy. Might be an interesting side business.
ReplyDeleteWe could do it "strangers on a train" style. I'll do yours, you do mine.
ReplyDelete@Strelnikov: Can't 18-year-olds be sued? They can certainly be prosecuted as adults for various crimes -- mostly drunk and/or reckless driving, at least in my experience of our student population. And the plagiarizers who aren't clueless freshmen are, all too often, 5th-year-plus (in other words, over 21-year-old) seniors who're just trying to get my required class over with and graduate.
ReplyDeleteOooo...strangers on a train.... If there are three of us, it just might work, but then we might have the "three body problem".
ReplyDelete@Contingent Cassandra
ReplyDeleteYes, they can be sued but I've never heard of a student being sued for fraud. When academic fraud comes up, usually it is handled through a grievance hearing where there are X number of judges (made up at random from the tenured faculty with maybe a student representative) and the student has to defend themselves against these charges if they so wish. So the real law is never involved, just a dinner theater version of "The Crucible."