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Florida University workers accused of changing grades

An AP newswire article by Adrian Sainz, via The Globe and Mail, reports that:

Two employees at a Florida university with access to computer databanks have been charged with accepting cash — and one with accepting sex — in exchange for changing the grades of dozens of students, authorities said.

Ellis Peet and Clifton Franklin allegedly used generic passwords or those belonging to other registrar employees to make the switches at Florida Memorial University. They both had graduated from the school and were fraternity brothers there, authorities said.

Peet, 37, was fired and Franklin, 32, resigned during the investigation at the school in the working class suburb of Miami Gardens.

The former students received payments ranging from $75 (U.S.) to $600 to change more than 650 grades for 122 students over three years, ending in 2002, authorities alleged in court records. Franklin also allegedly received sex from female students after changing their grades, and both men were accused of changing their own grades.

posted by Fergie @ 8/26/2005 11:47:00 AM