Auburn grade scandal

not surprised about those idiots over there

I'm really not surprised by those idiots over in Awbunn. There's a strong, constant odor coming out of Auburn, Ala.

However, if athletes (at any school) recieve preferential academic treatment (including free 'A's) you know some sport-hating prof is going to rat at some point.

The thing I find amazing is that the professor went to the school administration two years ago and was blown off. So the prof went to the media.

Wonder how many Leonard Popes UGAy can work throught the system before a professor, in Athens, cries foul...
 
Auburn education is crap

anyways. It's like high school all over again. I've read some auburn grads on another board talking about how their class was to read two books and pick up take home tests from their teachers box. It's a joke of a school.
 
This is more of a character issue than anything...

There is a decent education to be had at Auburn if you work for it. If you are tempted by taking the easy way out, and it is presented to you in the form of an easy class, then you will take it.

I don't know what is so bad about this though. There were several classes at GT and every other school where the athletes flocked to because it was an Easy "A". Anyone remember "Rocks for Jocks"? Also, I rememeber I had an English elective that basically was a class where we watched classic movies, musicals, etc and then openly discussed them. There was one test at the end of the class that was objective and not subjective. I think the majority of the class got A's and a few got B's. If you got a C or D, or even flunked.. you obviously just didn't go to class or do anything. Of course, if attendance was not mandatory and there were no tests involved, I don't know how you explain that.

All I'm saying is lesser versions of this go on at EVERY school, INCLUDING GT.
 
There were several classes at GT and every other school where the athletes flocked to because it was an Easy "A"
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I flocked to 'em as well, however, I also did the requsite work for my degree which largely did NOT include "EASY A". Apparently the issue at AU is too many of the requsite courses for the degree became an Easy "A".
 
GEETEELEE said:
I flocked to 'em as well, however, I also did the requsite work for my degree which largely did NOT include "EASY A". Apparently the issue at AU is too many of the requsite courses for the degree became an Easy "A".
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As far as my core classes and classes of my major, there was no such thing as an easy A. I did take the Film Class where we had to write 3 essay's and a test, but even my "science-fiction literature" class, I had to read like 9 books (from 200-350 pages), one a week, and take a test each week, plus a big paper at the end.
 
It is very true you can get a good education at Auburn. I have many friends who are graduates. But it is not the school Tech is by any means. When I was just our of school, I was working closely with 2 Auburn ME graduates and one day we were going to convert square feet to square yards. BOTH of these guys thought the conversion was to divide by 3! This is the outright truth I swear.

And I told them right away that any engineer worth his salt knew the correct factor was 27! :)
 
Easy A at Auburn

When my dad was a wheel with the govt he would not even interview an Auburn grad. I asked him once why not, he replied you can go to Auburn and get a degree or you can go to Auburn and get an education. He went on to say that in an interview you never knew which you were interviewing as even the ones with degrees know the buzz words.

I never interviewed an Auburn grad but did many Tech grads, I knew not to worry as the Tech grads had an education.
 
Since I've been at Tech, out of about 25 classes I've had, I can only really consider one a truly easy A. Even the "Rock for Jocks," EAS 1600 I think, is known for being pretty tough now.

Meanwhile, Auburn had players on the 2004 team who took this guy for 5,6 even 7 classes for a combined 97 hours. Now their Accreditation has become in danger. The SACS has already put Auburn on probation for iffy academics and this will only piss gasoline on their flames. The SACS has the power to do something far worse than the NCAA could ever do.
 
Can you imagine a large University like Auburn losing it's accreditation? The only school I can remember ever losing it's accreditation was Life University.
 
Auburn

Auburn, back in the early to mid 50's lost accreditation for it's engineering school as I recall not once but twice. It has happened at before, may happen again.
 
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oldfoggy said:
Auburn, back in the early to mid 50's lost accreditation for it's engineering school as I recall not once but twice. It has happened at before, may happen again.
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When I was Tech, the head of the ChE department told us that the Tech ChE department may lose its accredidation because Tech was not offerning enough liberal arts classes in the ChE curriculum to provide a well rounded education. Our chief 's position was that a chemical engineer with a well rounded education with a short radius was of no use to anyone, and if we did lose it, it would not affect our reputation in industry at all.
 
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