The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "academic fraud" ...
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Ivory tower inspections: Holding higher education's complex bureaucracies accountable
Gabrielson discusses the challenges of deciphering the world if higher education. He suggests ways of demystifying the institutions if you're covering higher education; who to know to get the information/data you need; reading internal control audits to better understand university finances; and map the university's income sources.
Tags: education; higher education; college; university; administration; students; academic fraud; audit; tuition
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Investigating High School Academic Fraud, 2002 IRE Tip Sheet for Sports Investigations
Useful tips in researching educational background of athletes and to determine if scores to meet NCAA's eligibility were obtained at accredited schools. Also included are tips to the documents, institutions and Web sites that you'll find useful to research when writing a sports story.
Tags: NCAA; college; high school; education; NAIA; NJCAA; academic fraud
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Sports: Making CAR part of the team
Linsk provides sone of the data sources that were instrumental in his coverage of the University of Minnesota's basketball academic fraud scandal in 1999.
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U Basketball Program Accused of Academic Fraud
Tipsheet includes an article from the Pioneer Press about the trouble academic program at the University of Minnesota. The story covers loopholes that basketball players get in their "educational program".