Posted on 10/13/2017 8:58:19 AM PDT by C19fan
The NCAA sanctioned Kentucky for a basketball player who allegedly took the ACT for another player to make him eligible. Is this not academic fraud?
In other words a slap on the wrist at best. SACS and the NCAA are a total joke.
Lesson learned is only schools that self report are penalized. So don’t report anything deny everything and you are good.
NCAA proved today that they are completely worthless and should be disbanded immediately.
“NCAA proved today that they are completely worthless and should be disbanded immediately.”
This^^^^ Pay the players. Burn the whole damn thing down!
UNC is a member of the AAU (Association of American Universities). https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members . AAU is focused on rigorous academic standards and research. Hmmmmm... UNC does seems like the greasy pig on this.
Now... In a full disclosure, I am a double STEM major from the Arts & Sciences and the Engineering colleges. I took two humanities classes to fill the box in for academic areas outside my majors. One was titled A History of American Pop Music and the other was A History of American Cinema. The classes were taught by a Humanities professor with weekly quizzes, 2 or 3 tests and a final. It was legit. Yes, better than half of the classes were the football, basketball, volleyball, baseball, etc. teams. However, silly as it may seem it frankly broadened (or warped) my tastes in both music and movies to this day. I have zero guilt over those two easy A's. LOL.....
I know that the athletes had access to tutors, a means to skip classes for practices and games, etc. and still have to perform with the class assignments and such. In my narrow experience, I never saw anything that made me think that these were fake classes at all. Now, I did know that there was one prominent athlete in one low level engineering class of mine that was suspected to be a serial cheater and it wouldn't surprise me if it was accurate. You just cant miss 3/4 of the classes, show up on test days and pass these, unless he had one hell of a tutor essentially spoon feeding him the entire class, homework through tests.
Wait! Just recalled one other easy class that I had a blast in! It was a graduate seminar type class one night a week. Each week we had a guest science or engineering prof. from outside the major field present some topic from their area of specialty. The class was graded about 25% on the ever nebulous class participation and 75% on a single term paper due on the last night of class with the subject tied into the discussion topic of one the presenters or their general professional specialty. Mine was the on the legal foundations for liabilities related to genetic engineering and I ain't no lawyer. Many hours at the law library plus the university had and still has a top rated historical document and book collection that I was able to view and touch books that added to the breadth of the bibliography. English Common Law is cool and I had never realized that it is largely the foundation for many underlying principles of American tort law. I only put this long winded paragraph in to try to make the point that not every college gimme class is bogus. This is not to excuse what UNC appears to have twisted things but I definitely am not in favor of a blanket condemnation, it can be done legitimately
How many fake degrees did they hand out?
When are they going to establish Departments of British, Norwegian, Italian, Polish, French, German, Irish, Scottish, Indian, Asian, or Kurdish studies?
What good would any degree in any of these go toward gainful employment after leaving college? Could you go to any of the above countries and get a job as an expert in that country’s culture?
I want a Department of English/Scottish/American Indian/Portuguese/Mali/and Canadian studies. Then I could walk around with a degree about my heritage. It wouldn’t be worth the paper it was printed on, but it would be a degree.
Athletes at North Carolina should sue to be allowed to get degrees based upon their individual heritage. After all don’t athletes already have this capability?
Wonder how many other colleges and universities have programs in African-American Studies???
What saved UNC’s butt on this was that the class was school wide and more students attended than student athletes...
The accreditation governing body gave a two year probation to the university and it has since gone by...
Yeah right are you looking to buy a bridge? I have one for sale in Brooklyn.
That’s from a Sports Illustrated article...Take it as you will...
Forever known as UNCheat.
Don’t know but I’d never hire anyone with that degree...from any school.
I’ve checked...Duke has 27 courses in A-A Studies...Kentucky, Alabama, UCLA, USC, Stanford, Ohio State, UMASS, Syracuse, Tennessee, Florida, Texas...That is just a few of them...
All told, there are 187 of them...
Some pretty big names on that list.
Check the list...Harvard, Princeton...many more...
Also, that list doesn’t have all of them...Tennessee has them..That’s where I got my EE degree...
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