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Download full textMaiuri, Katherine M.; Leon, Raul A. – Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2012
Scott Jaschik's (2010) article "Who Really Failed?" details the experience of Dominique Homberger, a tenured faculty member at Louisiana State University (LSU) who was removed from teaching her introductory biology course citing student complaints in regards to "the extreme nature" of the grading policy. This removal has…
Descriptors: College Science, Biology, College Faculty, Teacher Administrator Relationship
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Direct linkMcAllister, Charles D.; Jiang, Xiaoyue; Aghazadeh, Fereydoun – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
Among the academic community, there is a perception that there is an upward shift in grade point average over an extended period of time without a corresponding increase in achievement. This trend has become an alarming topic among educators, industry and the general public. Some attribute increases in GPA to improvements in student quality while…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Grade Inflation, Academic Achievement, Grading
Dixon, Nancy – CEA Forum, 2007
This essay is entitled "The 'I' of the Storm" in order to stress the very personal nature of teaching in the immediate, post-Katrina semester of Fall 2005. The University of New Orleans (UNO) was the only university in the city to open that semester, and many traumatized instructors, the author included, were serving the thousands of…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, College English, English Instruction, Higher Education
