“The numbers alone are surprising. At the University of North Carolina, more than 3,100 students, many of whom were athletes, took phantom classes in a “shadow curriculum,” netting high marks despite the fact that the classes never met and there wasn’t any work beyond a final paper no one read. The scheme ran for years, between 1993 and 2011, and the athletes “didn’t have to take notes, have to stay awake … they didn’t have to meet with professors … they didn’t have to pay attention or necessarily engage with the material.”
But once past the initial shock of those numbers — or the assessment’s candor — there is little that surprises in the news. There’s nothing new about academic chicanery when it comes to student-athletes, the very term increasingly exposed as a “myth,” in the words of one professor at the University of Notre Dame.” *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur), Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian), Desi Doyen (http://www.twitter.com/GreenNewsReport) and John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) discuss.
*Read more here from http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/23/the-unc-fake-class-investigation-and-the-the-myth-of-the-student-athlete/?wpmm=AG0003409
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Restaurant Service, F-Bombs For Feminism, College Athletes & Faking A Coma – The Young Turks 10/24/2014 Social Commentary
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