Quote from: secundem_artem on April 19, 2024, 10:01:57 AMThanks to all for the concern and good wishes for all the ongoing mishegoss at Artem U. I'm personally safe and close enough to retirement that if the merde well and truly hits the fan, I am well funded for retirement and can just leave.
Earlier this week, the advisory body that was the next step in the process just spit the pacifier and threw all the toys out of the crib. Were I the prez, I'd argue that they did not negotiate in good faith. They have essentially ceded all decision making to the board and gawd knows what those guys may do.
Said advisory body seems to have recognized they shat the bed and are scrambling to come up with a last minute, Hail Mary proposal to get in front of the board. I'd offer that the proposals are about as effective as "let's have a bake sale". Rather than dance with the devil they knew, now we all get to dance with the devil we don't. Academic governance is a freakin' farce. Nobody should take it seriously.
Quote from: Hibush on April 30, 2024, 05:51:13 AMQuote from: apl68 on April 29, 2024, 01:19:38 PMQuote from: spork on April 29, 2024, 10:25:50 AMClosure announcements today:
Wells College, NY
University of Saint Katherine, CA
Either St. Katherine's students and faculty had more to say, or its closure was the more abrupt of the two. Apparently the great majority of their students played sports.
"St. Katherine's was founded in 2010 and offered more than two dozen undergraduate and three graduate programs of study. It enrolled about 300 students." The article indciated that they mainly enrolled students who could not afford to pay tuition, which leads quickly to dire financial straits unless one has a major alternate source of revenue. They also had grandiose plans for a 5000 student institution on a brand new campus in Chula Vista.
Quote from: aside on May 03, 2024, 11:07:26 AMQuote from: darkstarrynight on May 03, 2024, 10:48:22 AMAs someone who used to work in an academic integrity office at my previous institution, I can share on this. That institution had the policy that students could submit work to two courses if they had the permission of both instructors. While it could happen in the same semester, there were situations in which students had a paper from a previous semester that would fit an assignment in the current semester, so they would still be required to contact the previous class's instructor for permission as well as the current instructor's. I do not suggest this is a perfect solution, but it does remove concerns that arise from something like TurnItIn if the current instructor is unaware of the previous course's assignment.
My institution has a similar policy, but only requires permission from the instructor of the current course, not the former course.
Quote from: darkstarrynight on May 03, 2024, 10:48:22 AMAs someone who used to work in an academic integrity office at my previous institution, I can share on this. That institution had the policy that students could submit work to two courses if they had the permission of both instructors. While it could happen in the same semester, there were situations in which students had a paper from a previous semester that would fit an assignment in the current semester, so they would still be required to contact the previous class's instructor for permission as well as the current instructor's. I do not suggest this is a perfect solution, but it does remove concerns that arise from something like TurnItIn if the current instructor is unaware of the previous course's assignment.
Quote from: aside on May 03, 2024, 11:02:05 AMIf you post a sign saying "Do not post signs on this door" on a door...
Quote from: darkstarrynight on May 03, 2024, 10:48:22 AMAs someone who used to work in an academic integrity office at my previous institution, I can share on this. That institution had the policy that students could submit work to two courses if they had the permission of both instructors. While it could happen in the same semester, there were situations in which students had a paper from a previous semester that would fit an assignment in the current semester, so they would still be required to contact the previous class's instructor for permission as well as the current instructor's. I do not suggest this is a perfect solution, but it does remove concerns that arise from something like TurnItIn if the current instructor is unaware of the previous course's assignment.