MGMT 516 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Caving

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGMT 516
• Professor: William Spangler

Document Summary

Ms. pelton teaches a botany class in piper high school and has assigned an extensive project as part of the course weighing 50% of students" grades. Students all signed a contract with the understanding that they would receive a zero on the project if they plagiarized the written portion, effectively failing automatically. Of ms. pelton"s 118 students, 28 plagiarized some parts of their papers. As stated in the contract, all 28 students failed the class. This infuriated parents who appealed the decision to the school board. The board decided to reduce the weight of the project from 50% to 30% of the grade, resulting in only 1 of the 28 students failing. Ms. pelton was never reached out to discuss this matter and resigned in protest. A local district attorney, nick a. tomasik, suited the board for violating open meeting laws. This incident was nationally discussed and negatively affected all piper high school students.