Ethical issues are faced in all professions, including those for which there's a presumption that ethics drives the profession, such as the financial aid professionals in colleges and universities. For example, to attract students to less popular majors, the financial aid office of a prominent East Coast university, one long distinguished by their number of premed majors, awarded less aid to admitted premeds than to humanities majors in order to attract underrepresented majors to campus. Referring to an admitted premed, a piece in The Wall Street Journal (S. Stecklow, "Expensive Lesson: Colleges Manipulate Financial Aid Offers, Shortchanging Many," April 1, 1996) reported, "And so in an experiment last spring, it quietly offered fatter financial-aid grants to incoming humanities majors than to most of their premed counterparts. While Peter is getting \($14,000\) a year, he might have snared about \($3,000\) more if he planned to major in, say, art history." An unethical practice? The article mentions "ethical concerns" and "ethical questions" and, for that matter, so does Peter's mother: "What you're telling the kid is, lie to get into college." No profession, no industry, is immune from the potential for unethical behavior.

Required: Select two articles from the recent press (e.g.. Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times) about problems you think raise ethical issues and draft a report that describes the issues. Discuss how you think the perpetrators could have satisfied their objective by a means you think ethical.