At UNC:
The 10-page report said the findings are a blow to the university’s academic integrity. The findings were so serious that the university consulted with the district attorney and the SBI about investigating forgery allegations, as some professors said their signatures were forged in documents certifying that they had taught some of the classes in question. Professors also said they had not authorized grade changes for students that the department submitted to the registrar’s office.
Law enforcement officials declined to investigate because they did not think the forgeries, if proven, rose to the level of criminal activity, according to the report.
“We are deeply disturbed by what we have learned in the course of our review,” said Jonathan Hartlyn and William L. Andrews, two senior faculty administrators who conducted the investigation. “Our review has exposed numerous violations of professional trust, affecting the relationship of faculty and students and the relationships among faculty colleagues in this department.”
They added, “These violations have undermined the educational experience of a number of students, have the potential to generate unfounded doubt and mistrust toward the department and its faculty, and could harm the academic reputation of the university.”
I think that at this point, just having a Department of Women’s Or Afro-American Studies is a de facto blow to any university’s academic integrity.
“These violations have undermined the educational experience of a number of students, have the potential to generate
unfoundedwell founded doubt and mistrust toward the department and its faculty, and could harm the academic reputation of the university.”There, fixed it.
I think it’s worth remarking that I decided long ago not to go into academia as a career after dealing with a case of cheating in a class I taught at UNC Chapel Hill. It showed me that unethical behavior was fairly common, and more importantly, not addressed in a meaningful way by the university. As I saw it, professors were left to deal with cheating and plagiarism mostly on their own.
I don’t mean by this observation that Chapel Hill was particularly bad. Part of my realization was that these failings were common to most colleges and universities. Nor do I imply that this was the only criteria for my decision. It is possible that I would have made the same decision at a later time. I never felt competent or secure as a professor, but after that case of cheating (and some future cases of grade inflation to my disadvantage from participating in collective grading), I never saw the value in working hard to fix that.
“I was surprised and shocked and sad that these things could happen here, and that some students didn’t get the full benefit to a Carolina education,” Thorp said.
In point of fact, it happens more often than they’d like to admit at ‘Hippy Hill’. I myself have met any number of people who can still think for themselves and who are not indoctrinated into Leftist Theology, thus proving they’ve failed in their prime directive at THAT particular institution of higher learning.
And to find that ’employees’ at an ACC School cheated so a football player could keep playing is no shock. College Sports is a religion many places, but at UNC it comes just ahead of mom, country, family and barely behind self preservation.
And obviously, there are a choice few who put it AHEAD of self preservation.