UNC will get a slap on the wrist because what happened there isn't all that uncommon.
I'm guessing that most of us took undergrad classes where you could never show up, turn in a paper that you banged out in a couple hours, and get no worse than a "C" grade. Also, a lot of schools place their less intelligent athletes in classes with professors who they understand will give them C's if they show up to class and hand in the assignments, even if the students' work is grossly substandard.
I guess what happened at UNC is a bit worse than that, but I don't understand the outrage. Is the formality of holding a lecture that most of the class skips, or requiring a student who can barely write a complete sentence to submit a "paper," the difference between being a bastion of academic integrity and being a total fraud?
I'm guessing that most of us took undergrad classes where you could never show up, turn in a paper that you banged out in a couple hours, and get no worse than a "C" grade. Also, a lot of schools place their less intelligent athletes in classes with professors who they understand will give them C's if they show up to class and hand in the assignments, even if the students' work is grossly substandard.
I guess what happened at UNC is a bit worse than that, but I don't understand the outrage. Is the formality of holding a lecture that most of the class skips, or requiring a student who can barely write a complete sentence to submit a "paper," the difference between being a bastion of academic integrity and being a total fraud?