We find one faculty member, and one administrator, to set up a system of bogus independent studies for our football and basketball players. The faculty member pretends to have taught these courses to the athletes, the students keep their traps shut, and the administrator signs off on everything. The players stay eligible without any university-related distractions from their games, the professor gets all kinds of salary bonuses for working so hard for the athletic program, and everyone’s happy.
It’s happening at a big sports school near you. The only reason my title singles out Auburn, Binghamton, and UNC is that these jerks got caught.
May 5th, 2012 at 7:20AM
Kevin Broadus, the fired Binghamton coach, is now an assistant coach at Georgetown. His bio there omits mention of the Binghamton interlude: http://www.guhoyas.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/broadus_kevin00.html.
May 5th, 2012 at 9:06AM
Whoa. Georgetown should be ashamed of itself. Talk about airbrushing history. And how about Georgetown hiring that guy at all, with all that he did to damage Binghamton? To say nothing of the fact that he has a record of suing the university that he works for. Georgetown will certainly get hit hard as a result of hiring this guy (just as all the schools that keep hiring, for another example, Rich Rodriguez, do). Georgetown students should ask why the school hired Broadus, why it allows employees to fudge their work histories on their web pages, and why university money will probably eventually be spent to make Broadus go away.
May 7th, 2012 at 10:12AM
The UNC thing is a modified limited hangout if there ever was one. Even small fry like Gilligan now have so many reports on faculty teaching loads, credit hours generated, etc. that there is no way someone in the higher administration could not have been aware that a department chair was racking up enormous numbers of credits and load hours. Similarly, it is hard to believe that the faculty of a whole department somehow neglected to notice that they were being credited with entire courses.
May 7th, 2012 at 10:39AM
tp: I have absolutely no doubt that the fraud was well-known to other faculty and to administrators. Same deal at Binghamton. And of course schools like Auburn barely bother to act surprised.