The professor hid the treasure at the university and described how to find it in the curriculum, but none of the students read it.

The professor hid the cash prize on campus. All students had to do to find the prize was read the curriculum, reports wxi 12.

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With each new semester of college, students are faced with a variety of curricula that outline lesson plans.

But do students read them carefully? A professor from Tennessee checked this out.

Kenyon Wilson, junior head of the performing arts department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, decided to code the bonus money locker into his music seminar program last semester.

The clue read: “Thus, for the first to claim; locker one hundred forty-seven; combination fifteen, twenty five, thirty five) ". This would lead the students to a locker that contained a $ 50 bill that the first student could have just received.

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But at the end of the semester, when he went to check the locker, the money was still there.

“It’s an academic stereotype that no one reads the syllabus,” Wilson said.

“This is similar to the terms and conditions, when you install software, everyone clicks that they have read it, although no one ever does,” he added.

There are 71 students in the class. Wilson said his program doesn't usually change much, but with the COVID protocols, some new information has surfaced this time around.

“There is a standard template that does not change. The university made us add a lot of legal stuff to the end,” Wilson added. “But on the first day of class, I told them something had changed and they needed to make sure they read it.”

When Wilson put the award in the locker, he left a note inside: “Congratulations! Please leave your name and date so I know who found it. " He was also confident that he would set a combination lock with a specific number at a specific position to determine if any students had tampered with the lock system, but the combination did not even turn.

“I had high hopes, and I would have been just as happy if one of my students had found my bonus in the first week,” Wilson said.

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Wilson waited until his final exams and semester were over before checking the locker.

He wrote about the unclaimed money in a message on Facebook. He says the students are "good at this."

Hayley Decker, a recent university graduate, has attended Wilson's seminar classes for the past 3,5 years and was one of the students who failed to find the hidden money last semester.

“I honestly thought it was fun,” Decker said.

“This class is usually taught in the same format every semester, so students know what to expect and don't waste time reading the curriculum as we should,” she added.

Decker said she wrote to a group of friends who were with her in class and everyone thought it was Wilson's smart move.

“I think Dr. Wilson did a really smart experiment,” Decker said. “It definitely made music students realize that even though the information is repetitive, you should still read your syllabus carefully.”

The professor also notes that everything was fun.

“I know my students read, and I don’t expect them to read scrupulously word by word, but if they do, I would like to reward them,” Wilson said.

“Nobody knew there was a bonus there,” Decker said. “We all admitted that we briefly reviewed this part of the syllabus because this information is in every syllabus for every grade you take.”

Wilson's Facebook post not only sparked reactions from students, but also sparked an idea for other professors and teachers across the country. “The 2022 curriculum may be the most widely read in history,” Wilson said.

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