Ex-Temple Business Dean Cheated for Prized Rank, U.S. Says
- Porat allegedly sent U.S. News gamed stats to draw students
- He is charged with conspiring to defraud applicants, donors
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The former dean of Temple University’s business school fed false data to U.S. News & World Report for years to inflate the school’s ranking and attract students, federal prosecutors alleged, in their latest crackdown involving higher education.
Moshe Porat, who ran the Richard J. Fox School of Business for more than two decades until his ouster in 2018, was charged by a federal grand jury with conspiring to defraud applicants, students and donors by falsely boosting the school’s ranking for online MBA programs to No. 1 four years in a row.