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Monday, December 04, 2006
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Update: Columbia University Journalism School Ethics Course A blogger at the New York Observer is observing the still rather mysterious cheating story at Columbia's Journalism school. She has a number of posts up about it. I've already talked about the unimpressive nature of graduate programs in subjects that don't have much content, like journalism (scroll down to "They Pretend to Pay Us..."). I'd also suggest, in cases like this one, looking closely at the format of the exam in question. Doesn't take place in a room, with a professor sitting at a desk in front of you. You're alone, on-line, and there's nothing to keep you from cheating. It's just one more instance of the abdication of real-time classroom responsibility on the part of professors. I mean, what the fuck. Throw the whole thing on-line. I've got other stuff to do, and so do the students... Why is anyone surprised that some students take a cynical attitude toward the exercise? |