Nixing the first choice college

higheredrocks
Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:58:03 +0000

This was pretty much one professor in one department who taught a no-show class and a bunch of highly suspect independent studies in a tiny department (a crooked administrator too, but she pretty much followed the professor’s lead). It happened years ago, but the NCAA is just getting its act together.

The athletic scandal was based on some academic support people steering athletes to this class and the professor, but plenty of non-athletes took the class. It was a disgrace, but doesn’t reflect at all on the academic quality of the institution (unless your kid plans to major in African-American studies, because I think the department was hurt by its chair being so unethical).

Tomorrow there will be a new scandal someplace else, possibly at your second choice school – and then what do you tell your kid? No graduate school or employer is going to discount his degree because of this. He’ll be fine. Congratulations.