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I beleive cheating has become a part of the administration of most universities...pretty sad. I know this is a totally different angle but I had this experience several years ago.

I went back to school to become an RN when I was 49 years old. I attended University of Louisiana at Lafayette College of Nursing, purportedly (at least by the school itself) one of the best, most rigorous nursing colleges. Each semester, they were taking 260 freshmen who had GPA’s that met the current minimum and when I was graduated, there were 35 in our class. Each year, the students were weeded out to fit the smaller and smaller class sizes. I worked my ass off, full-time student, did not work whilke I was in school and it was a bitch.

I had a hard time particularly when I saw classmates pass with 95 to 100 on tests: who were unable to write a sentence that made sense, who did not know the class material and who slept through most of the classes. I was having trouble in the OB semesters (I’m a guy) but I managed to get through.

While studying in the library for the last final exam of my senior year, one of my classmates took out a stack of paper that appeared to have test questions and answers on it. I asked her what that was, she told me that it was the exam answers...she said that she had printed them out from a website that had all of the exams from all of the nursing courses for all four years. She pulled out her computer, logged in with a user name and password and showed me...it was all there: about 200 to 300 questions for each course exam with correct answers. The exams were usually 50 to 100 questions so the teachers must have picked from the bank of questions. I asked her where she found out about this. She said someone had given her the name and password and that she thought that everyone knew about it. I asked if she had to pay for the info...she said that she didn’t but she thought her friend had paid for the log-in info.
She said that the info was only there at certain random times of the day so that the university would have trouble finding it...so you had to print it out when you saw it was available.

I took the exam about 15 minutes after this revelation...I was so livid that I thought I was going to explode during the exam but I managed to finish. I went to the assistant dean and told her, had her log on and she saw the exams...she was quite upset and asked me not to tell any one about it while they investigated....she did say the some teachers were puzzled because students “who were not supposed to pass were making A’s.” I passed the final exam and never heard anything about the cheating...I’m sure that it was swept under the rug...and I’m sure that at least one faculty member had to have been involved to have access to all of the exams.

I don’t know if things are this way at other nursing schools. A huge percentage of my classmates were taking adderall to stay awake for study and clinicals and taking ativan to get a few hours of sleep. And along with the cheating, there are many who I would not want ever taking care of anyone in my family.

A final word of advice from me: Always, ALWAYS, have a family member or closed trusted friend with you when you go to the hospital to help look out for your best interest. ...more so now with Obamacare.

So a pale friend got a job as a professor at a HUB college.

While there the one student who actually paid attention and knew the subject came up after class and objected to a tight deadline before a break.

The student did not have time to write the papers for multiple students in the class (mostly athletes). He was paid $50 from each athlete to write their papers!

John was flabbergasted and discussed with a member of the administration. Seems that the administration was aware of a “few irregularities” but thought it was a good way for the smarter students to pay for college, since they has few scholarships!

John quit at the end of the year and was released from his multiyear contract with no penalty. As a pastor he was not going to pass anyone he caught cheating - but he suspects that every student he had was passed anyway.