Bad guess, I'm a grad student and the last grade I got to take a mulligan on was in elementary school. Not that I ever asked because responsibility.
FC37
FC37
We had Rocks for Jocks but otherwise professors seemed pretty happy to take the path of least resistance with athletes.
I got a lot of heat for suggesting that professors were in on compromising academic integrity for the sake of athletics. But here we have a professor changing a grade a year later (a full letter grade jump) on the basis of a 4- or 5-page paper. If I ever asked a professor to rewrite a paper even a month after the…
One and done is rare. Even top prospects like Jonathan Toews stick around for a minimum of two years. Most play at least three years (as opposed to top prospects who play two in juniors and jump to the NHL, where they often struggle at first). How many have four year degrees, I can't say but the average time that a…
I'm in grad school and I'm afraid I have to back this up with my experience as well. We have a few native Chinese speakers who have never been to the U.S. before but whose English (written, spoken, comprehension, and presentation) is better than 5 or 6 educated Americans. Unfortunately, to my earlier point, all of…
For American hockey players. Big difference.
Doubtful. American hockey players have the same option with Canadian juniors and very few go the riskier route. Guys like Kane and Milano did take the early jump but Eichel, Gaudreau and most others chose the NCAA.
I could write you two macros this afternoon: one to save dozens of email attachments to a folder, another to analyze that folder and give you a list of all the names in the metadata. It would take a max of 60 seconds to run for a class of 200 students.
I know it's easy to change and to spoof. Again, not trying to implement a perfect system here.
Professors don't know what they don't know, but isn't it up to the NCAA to guide them? If the NCAA takes it so seriously, wouldn't they send out even a general guidelines memo to all professors with suggestions?
That's a great example, thanks for sharing your experience. I don't mean to put any blame on honest professors who just never noticed metadata not matching names. For example, you clearly were not one of the professors who was letting things slide: you were googling phrases you identified to be fishy and I assume you…
I know athletes at academically-respected DIII schools who had systems like this in place. At a minimum, there was grade inflation.
I'm not trying to prescribe a foolproof plan going forward. Clearly, there are already ways and systems for professors to do that if they are so inclined (they are quite cumbersome).
Presumably, professors at every school that does this (which is every school, even my D1-AA alma mater) should be able to just check the metadata of each assignment to make sure the author fields match the student's name, no? I realize that metadata can be easy to spoof but it's probably not done even the majority of…
I have literally no idea what you're talking about. I just spent way too long researching Lawrence, KS (90 seconds) and the only thing you might possibly be referencing is some pre-Civil War BS. Which I'm SURE that Bob Nighengale is still just steamed about.
The media eats what the team serves. I'm not saying they need to make Dennis Rodman their Chief Marketing Officer, but maybe cool it on the Applebee's Blue Plate Special: Humble Pie crap. Maybe that flies in Missouri but if you haven't noticed, the rest of America questions Missouri's judgment and self-righteousness…
Personality, off-field stature, leadership: one of the best.
How do you catch a skate to the mouth when you're wearing a full cage? And if you're not wearing a full cage, why the hell are you diving in to a pile of skates?
Exhibit A. The way to properly rebuild is to, what, do what Atlanta did? What Edmonton's doing? Because that works every time.