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UNCheaters
Posted: November 18th, 2012, 9:18 am
by CameronBornAndBred
Hugely damning article out in the N&O. One of the teachers inside the system is talking.
Numerous football and basketball players came to the university with academic histories that showed them incapable of doing college-level work, especially at one of the nation’s top public universities. Diagnostic tests administered by the university confirmed their lack of preparedness and also identified learning disabilities that would need extensive remediation to put them on a successful academic path.
Some athletes told Willingham they had never read a book or written a paragraph, but they were placed in no-show classes that required a 20-page paper and came away with grades of B or better.
Read more here:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/11/17/ ... rylink=cpy
Re: UNCheaters
Posted: November 18th, 2012, 9:45 am
by Ima Facultiwyfe
This should be on the good morning thread!
Bless their cheatin' hearts.
Love, Ima
Re: UNCheaters
Posted: November 18th, 2012, 10:18 am
by YmoBeThere
Unfortunately, those athletes would have gone to another university and likely gotten the same treatment with regards to academics. In many ways, it is a race to the bottom.
Re: UNCheaters
Posted: November 18th, 2012, 10:30 am
by CameronBornAndBred
YmoBeThere wrote:Unfortunately, those athletes would have gone to another university and likely gotten the same treatment with regards to academics. In many ways, it is a race to the bottom.
Yes, the athletes would have gone to another school, but would they have faced the same classless treatment? Maybe, I don't know. But it is squarely on UNC's shoulders for shuffling them to non existent classes and giving them phony grades for work they didn't do, instead of working with them to bring them to where they needed to be.
Re: UNCheaters
Posted: November 18th, 2012, 10:44 am
by CameronBornAndBred
Enjoyable quote from WRAL.
“We had all this news about a rogue tutor,” Smith explained. “There was a rogue assistant coach, a rogue agent, now, a rogue faculty member and a rogue administrative assistant. That's a lot of rogues."
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/11090438/
Re: UNCheaters
Posted: November 18th, 2012, 1:40 pm
by devildeac
CameronBornAndBred wrote:Enjoyable quote from WRAL.
“We had all this news about a rogue tutor,” Smith explained. “There was a rogue assistant coach, a rogue agent, now, a rogue faculty member and a rogue administrative assistant. That's a lot of rogues."
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/11090438/
I personally prefer these rogues:
http://rogue.com/beers/beers.php
Re: UNCheaters
Posted: November 19th, 2012, 12:36 am
by colchar
I can't believe how quiet the NCAA is being about this situation. What will it take for them to step up and do their jobs?