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Wow. The chair of a department at the University of New Hampshire tampered with a colleague’s course evaluations.

That’s disgusting enough, but the email he sent about it (he doesn’t think he should be fired) is even more disgusting.

Turns out when he rewrote student comments he was “in a very dark and vulnerable place.”

Poor baby.

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Hm. Things have been bumpy in that department for awhile.

Margaret Soltan, April 26, 2013 8:09AM
Posted in: professors

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11 Responses to “Wow. The chair of a department at the University of New Hampshire tampered with a colleague’s course evaluations.”

  1. Joe Fruscione Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 8:46AM

    Cue the “I’m not responsible for my actions because of the darkness and vulnerability” fauxpology in 3, 2, 1…

  2. Alan Allport Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 9:17AM

    I do like: “I do not believe my act represents my character.” Hey, this isn’t me; this is just, you know, the stuff I do.

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 9:23AM

    Joe: Fauxpology is a new one on me. Beautiful.

  4. Joe Fruscione Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 10:07AM

    UD: I wish I came up with it, but Urban Dictionary–arguably the Ur-source for newfangled words–already lists it.

    It applies very well to politicians, celebrities, athletes, coaches, etc. who sort of apologize…but don’t really apologize.

  5. MattF Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 10:38AM

    Form A-001:

    http://www.bureauofcommunication.com/compose/apology

  6. Margaret Soltan Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 10:39AM

    MattF: WAY laughing out loud. Thanks for sending.

  7. Jack/OH Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 11:14AM

    A non-prof, I’m a higher ed-friendly, but what is it with the “Phil Donahue defense” you sometimes hear when Prof. Jones gets caught grabbing ass, cooking the books, or fudging the paperwork (the malicious, willful kind of fudging)? “I wasn’t in touch with my feelings”, “my sense of hurt overwhelmed my sense of judgment”, etc.

    Come on folks, we out here in non-academe generally believe you folks are paid to have a standard of intellectual and moral integrity we in sweaty-collar land can’t quite afford.

  8. Timothy Burke Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 7:13PM

    Second link goes to an advertising site.

  9. Margaret Soltan Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 7:15PM

    Thanks, Tim. I’ll fix.

  10. dmf Says:
    April 26th, 2013 at 9:26PM

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/professor-deeply-hurt-by-students-evaluation,20130/

  11. Michael Tinkler Says:
    April 27th, 2013 at 8:07AM

    I’ve seen some cases of serious gnat-straining going into departmental reports of student evaluation data for promotion candidates, but I couldn’t imagine even these people changing the numbers! Wow is right.

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