http://thedartmouth.com/2015/01/07/sixty-four-students-charged-with-honor-code-violations/
Sad, indeed. While the majority of the class are varsity athletes the article does not state whether the students caught cheating are all athletes - could be non athletes as well.
So they were suspended for a semester but not barred from participating in athletics?
What are these clickers that were being used?
Clickers are used in an attempt to incentivise students to attend class. A small portion of the grade would be based upon class attendance/participation. Perhaps one person was given the clickers of many?
Sad…but funny!
Now that’s hilarious!! “Barred from participating! IN ATHLETICS!!!”
Comedy gold! At most schools you could stab someone and still be able to at least finish the season!
So each student has a clicker that they ‘click’ to show that they are present? I have never heard of this. Amazing. Shouldn’t college students be trusted to make their own decisions about whether or not to attend class?
Clickers are used for many purposes…to take roll, but also to provide immediate responses for the prof. A prof may put up a question on the board, and the students are supposed to put in the answer using clickers. The prof can see how well the class is understanding a newly learned concept.
Clickers are also used for quizzes.
Yes, it would be easy for someone who is missing class to give their clicker to someone else to make it look like the person didn’t play hooky.
How big is this lecture class? It must be a big one.
@mom2collegekids Funny???
What’s really pathetic about this is that they were cheating in the gut course designed to be easy for athletes.
@MidwestDad3 funny because it’s an ETHICS class. Cheating isn’t funny…the fact that it’s an ethics class made H and I laugh when we read the title.
Wow, this clicker business is news to me. I’ve never heard of it, nor have known of any school that uses them.
Have also never heard of ‘playing hooky’ in college.
Clickers were used in large lecture classes at UF 10 years ago when S was there (used mainly for quizzes).
Facepalm
Maybe attendance at class is a NCAA rule or something? At my D’s school, she said some of the football players were in a freshman intro class with her, and the professor took separate attemdance before class started to make sure they were there, and also at the end of class to make sure they’d stayed throughout.
Edited to add: By “separate attendance” I mean the prof only took attendance of the football players, not the non-athlete students.
How ironic. Another example of how holistic admissions fails an elite university.
The students will be punished because they are adults but what about the adults who recruited and/or admitted these students? Will coaches or admissions be punished?
I think how the university handles the cheating rather than the fact that they admitted “cheaters” is more indicative of the school’s quality.
It’s not a scandal for a university to have kids who cheat as long as they don’t cover it up, protect the students, etc.
Hang on a second. This can’t be true!. All of my CC compadres assure me that these athletes are the academic equivalents of the non-athletes rejected from the college - otherwise they would never have been admitted.
It just can’t be true that athletes at Dartmouth are “intimidated academically”. Say it ain’t so.
There is no NCAA requirement. Coaches, however, want players to remain eligible and often believe that attendance is a precursor to remaining eligible. So, the coach (or academic advisor) asks the prof to take roll of his athletes so issues about attendance can be addressed, if needed.
64 students were accused by the University of cheating in an ethics and religion class last semester.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-08/dartmouth-accuses-64-students-of-cheating-in-sports-ethics-class.html
Wondering what affect, if any, these “scandals” have on elite school’s application rates (also UVa, UNC Chapel Hill, etc). Dartmouth has had some controversy in the last couple of years and their applications declined a bit.