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Message: [QUOTE="azfan, post: 5268600, member: 7748"] I agree - students and student athletes are clearly not homogeneous..... With one exception that I refetence at the end of this post Let me clarify, the vast majority of football and MBB at the elite (top 25) level and those athletes in football and MBB who are committed to the "next" level view their college experience as a preparation and/or barrier to their career. So, user friendly courses at North Carolina, Auburn, Michigan, UCLA (see below) oh yeah. Is anyone naive enough to believe these are the only schools that systematically cheat? Of course not. Do athletes at Texas, ASU, Oklahoma, Alabama, . . . . well the list goes on. But athletes in college should not be singled out - the vast majority of college students admit to cheating. [URL='http://The State of Academic Integrity in Higher Ed Studies and surveys have repeatedly highlighted the prevalence of cheating and its negative implications on the credibility of academic credentials, student outcomes, and the overall educational environment. But cheating in higher education is a complex and persistent issue, involving a tangled web of direct and indirect causes. Far from being a black-and-white matter, it requires a nuanced understanding of the entire integrity landscape. Here are a few noteworthy research findings and some important context behind the numbers. Between 50% and 70% of students admit to cheating during their academic career.1 Two students sitting side-by-side at a table, with one student looking out of the corner of his eye at the other student%27s laptop computer. This finding has remained relatively consistent in recent years, but it’s alarming for several reasons. The first and most obvious: Dishonest behavior is widespread, being demonstrated by more than half of the undergrad student population.']https://www.meazurelearning.com/resources/by-the-numbers-academic-integrity-in-higher-education[/URL] What I was pointing out was that for college football and men's basketball the elite institutions recognize these employees are acting in full time jobs and thus, to maintain the facade of student athlete provide user friendly classes. Do all division 1 college football players and men's basketball players take advantage? Of course not. But the vast majority do. [SIZE=4]The State of Academic Integrity in Higher Ed[/SIZE] Studies and surveys have repeatedly highlighted the [URL='https://www.meazurelearning.com/resources/the-reputational-effects-of-academic-dishonesty-in-higher-education']prevalence of cheating and its negative implications [/URL]on the credibility of academic credentials, student outcomes, and the overall educational environment. But cheating in higher education is a complex and persistent issue, involving a tangled web of direct and indirect causes. Far from being a black-and-white matter, it requires a nuanced understanding of the entire integrity landscape. Here are a few noteworthy research findings and some important context behind the numbers. [HEADING=2]Between 50% and 70% of students admit to cheating during their academic career.[/HEADING] This finding has remained relatively consistent in recent years, but it’s alarming for several reasons. The first and most obvious: Dishonest behavior is widespread, being demonstrated by more than half of the undergrad student population." Yes, college athletes non homogeneous and if one contrasts revenue athletes in football and men's basketball with all other sports one might question the vast majority conforming to real academic norms. Also, they are not the only cheaters as cheating is endemic in college - the vast majority of students cheat - they actually acknowledge this. "Professor Jasmine Harris of Ursinus College [URL='https://theconversation.com/its-naive-to-think-college-athletes-have-time-for-school-100942']writes here[/URL] that she believes it is naïve to think that athletes have time for their coursework. Her research, she says, shows that [B][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]Division I football and basketball players “spend three times as many hours per week on athletics as they do on academics[/COLOR][/B].” Therefore, Harris continues, athletes “aren’t able to fully actualize their identities as students to the same degree as their classmates.”" The role of the NCAA is laughable and the North Carolina example (scandal) is representative of the incompetence, corruption, self seeking behavior of the NCAA. Most of us recall the scandal at Bill Belichick;s employer [HEADING=2]CNN: UNC report finds 18 years of academic fraud to keep athletes playing[/HEADING] [URL="https://whistleblower.org/in-the-news/cnn-unc-report-finds-18-years-academic-fraud-keep-athletes-playing/"]CNN: UNC report finds 18 years of academic fraud to keep athletes playing - Government Accountability Project[/URL] AND, unsurprisingly: [B][SIZE=5]NCAA finds no violations at North Carolina. (Source: Inside Higher Education)[/SIZE][/B] [URL="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/16/breaking-ncaa-finds-no-academic-fraud-unc"]Breaking: NCAA finds no academic fraud by UNC[/URL] A recent book - little has changed [URL="https://jamesgmartin.center/2021/09/recalling-the-great-unc-sports-scandal-how-much-has-really-changed/"]Recalling the Great UNC Sports Scandal—How Much has Really Changed? — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal[/URL] A series of investigations revealed the unsavory truth about collaboration between the Athletics Department and certain elements of the faculty to ensure that players remained eligible no matter how weak their academic performance. The African and African-American Studies Department was the guiltiest party, although Mary Willingham offered the opinion that many faculty members were afraid to give players bad grades. UNC’s administration feared terrible penalties would come from the NCAA and perhaps also the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the organization that provides accreditation for the university. (It’s worth noting that the deep academic integrity problems that the investigations revealed had gone undetected by SACS, which would lead one to question how much good it and other accreditation bodies are.) But instead of severe penalties, UNC got off with a slap on the wrist from the NCAA, some loss of scholarships, and a one-year ban on post-season play. SACS did nothing. Not just North Carolina UCLA and others Summarized best in a quote from UCLA’s Josh Rosen stating “football and school don’t go together.” “They just don’t. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs. There are guys who have no business being in school, but they’re here because this is the path to the NFL. There’s no other way.” Rosen added. There are those out there who would argue that these large universities have a responsibility to provide their athletes with the best academic prep for life, but when viewing the profits generated from these athletic programs it is clear to see why paper classes have become a growing trend. [URL="https://the-telescope.com/39380/sports/palomar-mens-sports/college-athletes-cut-corners-with-paper-classes/"]College athletes cut corners with paper classes[/URL] Auburn [URL="https://georgiasports.blogspot.com/2006/07/ny-times-auburn-keeping-athletes.html"]NY Times: Auburn Keeping Athletes Eligible via Fake Classes?[/URL] [HEADING=2][URL='https://georgiasports.blogspot.com/2006/07/ny-times-auburn-keeping-athletes.html']NY Times: Auburn Keeping Athletes Eligible via Fake Classes?[/URL][/HEADING] Friday's [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/sports/13cnd-auburn.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=c25d9c5a7d313bfc&hp=&ex=1152849600&adxnnl=1&oref=login&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1152850362-tnyKZcqrwek2f1KbkPGK2Q']New York Times breaks the story[/URL] of Auburn's latest "academic" non-sense. The long and short of it...the Auburn Athletic Department was driving student-athletes such as Cadillac Williams and 17 other football players towards independent study classes lead by one professor, Thomas Petee. That professor was a one man eligibility army keeping players academically alive for the undefeated 2004 season. University of Michigan [URL="https://www.blackshoediaries.com/2008/3/16/13955/5089"]Academic Scandal Rocks Michigan[/URL] John Hagen was, as he has been for decades, close to some of the most recognized athletes at Michigan. University records obtained by The News show that the veteran psychology professor has taught at least 294 independent studies from the fall of 2004 to the fall of 2007, and 85 percent of those courses, 251, were with athletes. Why students cheat - five answers: panic, hyperbolic discounting, akrasia, ease, and The Experience Machine. Let’s take a look. [URL="https://open.substack.com/pub/hilariusbookbinder/p/why-ai-is-destroying-academic-integrity?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=107r4l"]Why AI is Destroying Academic Integrity[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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