'Rub my Nuts'

Social Work dean and professor battle again; report says shirt 'inappropriate, unacceptable'

Richard Oviatt

Issue date: 5/27/09 Section: Campus

The dean of the College of Social Work "acted inappropriately" at a student orientation when he wore a shirt emblazoned with "Rub my Nuts," according to a report by Ohio State's Office of Human Resources...

I think this is hilarious!

Fraud in Academia

A MINORITY VIEW
BY WALTER WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 2009

Soon college students will come home and present parents with their grades. To avoid delusion, parents should do some serious discounting because of rampant grade inflation. If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

Writing for the National Association of Scholars, Professor Thomas C. Reeves documents what is no less than academic fraud in his article "The Happy Classroom: Grade Inflation Works." From 1991 to 2007, in public institutions, the average grade point average (GPA) rose, on a four-point scale, from 2.93 to 3.11. In private schools, the average GPA climbed from 3.09 to 3.30. Put within a historical perspective, in the 1930s, the average GPA was 2.35 (about a C-plus); whereby now it's a B-plus.

Academic fraud is rife at many of the nation's most prestigious and costliest universities. At Brown University, two-thirds of all letter grades given are A's. At Harvard, 50 percent of all grades were either A or A- (up from 22 percent in 1966); 91 percent of seniors graduated with honors. The Boston Globe called Harvard's grading practices "the laughing stock of the Ivy League." Eighty percent of the grades given at the University of Illinois are A's and B's. Fifty percent of students at Columbia University are on the Dean's list. At Stanford University, where F grades used to be banned, only 6 percent of student grades were as low as a C...

Things that make you go, hmmmm and at the same time, laugh at the hypocrisy that is academia today! Oh, just a reminder, for those this may not sit well with, Dr. Williams is a PROFESSOR at George Mason University.

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