While College Fails to Adequately Transmit Civic Knowledge, It Influences Opinion on Polarizing Social Issues
RYAN MAC
Computer Science 106A: Program Methodology course at Stanford University…Neal McCluskey
it may be easy to cheat (cut, paste some code, voila!) but it is just as easy to detect cheating. (It is the computer science department, after all)…
Cases in which students borrow code in computer-science classes make up a disproportionate share of the honor-code violation situations…
The number of honor code violations have prompted Professor Roberts to implement a new system. Describing this method as a “collective incentive” for students to maintain academic standards, the professor said he will add 5 percent for every honor-code violation in his class to the weight of the final exam, which is currently 15 percent of the class grade.
In other words, if one person cheats, the whole class will face more pressure on the final exam, because it will make up a greater portion of a person’s grade. Whether the scorn of fellow students is a bigger deterrent to cheating than being personally disciplined by the university remains to be seen…
there is much more accurate imagery possible when it comes to Sallie Mae: Egomaniacal Dr. Frankenstein furiously blaming the monster he created for doing exactly what he built it to do…Steve Malanga
the provocative headline, "The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind,'" on a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education…
As compelling as I found Pannapacker's pieces, what astonished me the most about them is how little things have changed in 30 years. Virtually everything he says is shockingly similar to the warnings of Darcy O'Brien, a novelist and English professor whose 1979 article, "A Generation of Lost Scholars" in the New York Times magazine observed that, "a profession that traditionally prided itself on its gentility and immunity from the raw practices of the marketplace now finds itself unable to employ more than one in three humanities Ph.D.s." This was no accident, O'Brien recounted, because even as universities of the day "question their degree programs," they continued them, while "students, some of them either ignorant or misled, pursue courses of study that may enlighten the mind but will likely lead to unemployment."…
"there is still almost no way...for students to gather some of the most crucial information about graduate programs: the rate of attrition, the average amount of debt at graduation, and, most important, the placement of graduates (differentiating between adjunct, lecturer, visiting, tenure-track positions, and nonacademic positions)." Were he still writing on the subject, O'Brien might observe that thirty years is a long time to be keeping this vital information from students…
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