Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 08, 2020

Poor Professor Deadman and Walden are paying the price for every professor who believes in education.

We called it a “Gentleman’s B.”

I had a student get upset with me for marking his 10 question quiz “0” when he did not answer any of the questions. His rationale was “I put my name on it!” Yeah, right; if anything, kid, that should be minus points.

It occurs to me to wonder if nowadays it might be permissible to give a ‘B’ if you issued a trigger warning first.

When your only two grade options are Outstanding and Excellent. One of them is going to be an ‘F’.

Where’s B.D. when you need him?

The jury was 100% correct. If the catalog states students will receive straight As and students enroll in Walden based on this promise then any variations to this policy is clearly bait and switch and 3x damages are appropriate.

Points have been made. How long does this storyline go on?

This is what happens when colleges and universities start treating students as customers and not as necessary inconveniences.

I graduated from a second tier university (Ca. St. Univ. Fresno) in 1975 with a BS in accounting and a 3.0 GPA only to be informed that recruiters would knock 1 grade point off when comparing graduates from a second tier school such as Fresno to graduates from Berkeley/Stanford/UCLA. So for a third tier school such as Walden a B would likely = a D from Yale.

Yep, if the catalog stated that the students could expect As then the professor really didn’t have a defense, other than the fact that apparently nobody ever told him about it.

I love these old Doonesbury cartoons. They transport me back to a time when things were simpler.

Many yrs ago, I was tested, and told that my highest “aptitude” was for teaching. However, my Major was emphatically NOT “in demand”, and my wife became pregnant just as I was completing my M.A. I never taught. I did Okay in another field, and the more teachers I talk to, the more convinced I am that it was not a tragedy.

It was having a “D” Jury that won it for them.