The president and athletic director at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) fired the school’s basketball coach because an expense form he had submitted for reimbursement had the names of two students he said had joined him for a recruiting dinner. The students had not been to the dinner.

The coach was stunned because he had been at UCLA for eight years and had established a winning program. He said, “And to throw it all away on a meal?”

Do you agree with the coach’s assessment? Was it too harsh to fire him for one inaccurate expense form? Did the coach commit an ethical breach?

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