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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 2369173, member: 5823"] I cannot believe that you an Ivy league graduate could be so easily fooled. [B] The enrollment:[/B] "[I] Between 1989 and 2011, there were a total of 2,707 total student enrollments in AFAM independent studies.60. Applying the assertion by Crowder and Nyang’oro, that means that more than 1,354 of those enrollments received a Crowder-managed independent [B]study with no interaction with a faculty member[/B]. Analyzing these enrollments, we found 2,090 individual students who took one or more AFAM independent studies during that period. Of that number, 91 students were enrolled in three AFAM independent studies, 23 students were enrolled in four, six students took five, and one student was enrolled in six. Of the 30 students enrolled in four or more AFAM independent studies, 15 (50%) were student-athletes.[/I] [B] My question:[/B] If roughly half the enrollments (1354 of 2707) did not have interaction with a faculty member how was the work ("however minimal") verify to be of any quality? [B]The grades:[/B] [I]The grades earned in these AFAM paper classes were significantly higher than grades awarded in the regular AFAM classes. The average grade issued to all identified students in the paper classes was 3.62, as compared to an average grade of 3.28 for the regular AFAM classes. That difference was even greater for student-athletes. [B]The average grade given to all student athletes for the paper classes was 3.55, as compared to an average student athlete grade of 2.84 for the regular AFAM classes.[/B] The inflated grades from the paper classes had a significant impact on student and student-athlete GPAs and academic standing. Each paper class grade increased a student’s GPA, on average, by approximately .03 grade points. [B]The significance of this effect could be seen in the number of students for whom the paper class grade made the difference in reaching or not reaching the 2.0 grade threshold.[/B] In the case of 329 students, the grade they received in a paper class provided the “GPA boost” that either kept or pushed their GPA above the 2.0 level for a semester. For 81 of those students, that GPA boost was the margin that gave them the 2.0 GPA that allowed them to graduate. [/I] [B]My comment:[/B] There is no doubt that many UNC students recognized AFAM major as an easy major and jumped on board but for those non-Athletes there is no benefit in taking an easy major. There can also be no doubt that there was a tangible benefit (eligibility to play) and 329 times a student was given "exactly" the grade required to remain eligible. [I] [URL='https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0ahUKEwi715LRiu7WAhWBViYKHW5-BjAQFggzMAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcarolinacommitment.unc.edu%2Ffiles%2F2014%2F10%2FUNC-FINAL-REPORT.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1CSFaD9O-8e8HgujjBV9pn']https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0ahUKEwi715LRiu7WAhWBViYKHW5-BjAQFggzMAI&url=https://carolinacommitment.unc.edu/files/2014/10/UNC-FINAL-REPORT.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1CSFaD9O-8e8HgujjBV9pn[/URL] [/I] [/QUOTE]

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