Baruch College, part of the City University of New York, fired Chris Koutsoutis, Director of Executive Programs at its Business School, after an internal inquiry accused him of forging professors’ signatures to raise the grades of students who didn’t meet graduation requirements.
He pleaded guilty on Dec.19 to 21 felony charges of forgery and 10 misdemeanor charges of falsifying business records. In court he admitted changing one grade from an F to an A-minus, saying on a grade-change form that the student had “completed missing work.” Koutsoutis agreed to serve six months in jail and five years on probation under the plea deal.
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