1/3 of the class cheated... What are they trying to teach some silly moral lesson or something. Don't they know that stuff is based on religion, and morals are relative...

 

 

 

One of these days my undergraduate institution will get in the news for something good. 

Maybe. One day. For now it tends to be stuff like this, killing football players, and other assorted scandals. Woo. Go UCF. 

That kid is named Konstantin, and he used to write the occasional column for the student paper back when I was around. 

Saying that people shouldn't be punished for doing it is dumb, for sure. But cheating at the undergraduate level is unfortunate, and it happens. And, I mean, enough people from UCF have put his name out there as connected to those statements, which I'm sure is not the best thing to do when looking for jobs. 

My thoughts on the matter, as someone who went there: 

I'm awfully suspicious of this professor. I've been following this thing since the beginning, and even from the very start of the story breaking, people have been lighting up comment sections of the stories and videos saying that the students are not wrong here, that they used a study bank of practice questions from the textbook publisher's website to study, and the professor, being lazy, just pulled his test together from those same available questions. 

Part of what makes me suspicious is that nearly one-third of a 600-student class is reported to have "cheated." If someone really did somehow get the exact answer code, distributing said answer key to about 200 people without a shred of evidence coming up for a month is going to be damn hard to do. 

That said, if they DID get the answer code, throw the book at them. Send them to Office of Student Conduct, Z-Grade them for the semester and threaten as much as you can. Hell, even push for expulsion from the College of Business. 

But someone really needs to ask the professor where the questions on the test he made came from before throwing the students under the bus. 

Not only that, UCF is asking for problems, the way they run that College of Business. They pack in kids like sardines in these massive lecture classes, and now almost one-third of all business classes are online only. 

It doesn't make the cheating any more acceptable if it happened, not at all, but come on. You can't act bewildered when people cheat in a program managed like that. Not only that, but the moronic cameras they installed in those lecture rooms in that building just shows UCF has no concept of how students actually cheat in the technological age.

Yes, the notoriously liberal College of Business, packed full of notoriously liberal business students. 

Please keep your thread-dumping in your "Politics" thread. 

I'd love to know how many students did come forward. If it was a small number, could intimidation - the professor threatened expulsion and lawsuits - have gone into that? 

Even if I'd not done anything wrong, would I be more likely to "confess" to clear my name anyway just to make sure? 

Not sure on either count. 

 

On a related side note: Professors need to stop being lazy and make a new test!  Change the numbers in the questions or at least change the order of the questions...