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A thousand students attending the University of California’s annual Students of Color Conference marched on the Los Angeles federal building on Sunday to protest proposed cuts to public higher education in the state.
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently proposed more than $100 million in mid-year cuts to the UC and Cal State systems, prompting university officials to float the possibility of enrollment cuts.
Law student Lucero Chavez, the president of the University of California Students Association, told the crowd that “rising fees are one of the largest barriers facing low-income and minority students,” and the group accordingly called for a five-year freeze on in-state tuition.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Read told Gannett News Service this weekend that he doesn’t expect “much of a fight at all” over a comprehensive immigration bill in the new Congress.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the bill is expected to include provisions making some undocumented immigrants eligible for federal student aid, smoothing such students’ paths to legal permanent residency, and rendering it easier for states to charge them in-state tuition rates.
He’s not done yet.
In a new blog entry, fired Florida adjunct Loye Young has made a “game theory” argument that even the threat of expulsion from college is “no deterrent at all” in cases of plagiarism, and that his policy of publicly shaming ostensible plagiarists is thus the only effective response to the problem.
His post takes eleven paragraphs to get where it’s going, but its premise can be summed up in a single sentence: If a student has no way of passing a course except through plagiarism, and if he or she cannot graduate without taking that specific course, then it’s in his or her interest to plagiarize, even in the face of harsh academic penalties.
That’s it. That’s the whole of his argument that “plagiarizing really does pay if the only penalties are altering the grade and/or expulsion.” There’s nothing else.
Do you think Young’s former superiors at Texas A&M International University are more pleased with themselves right now for getting him out of the classroom, or embarrassed that they put him there in the first place?
A hundred students and faculty sat in silence outside last Thursday’s meeting of the College of DuPage board of trustees — some with black tape covering their mouths — to protest the far-reaching changes in university governance the board has proposed.
Glenn Hansen, president of the College of DuPage Faculty Association, said the proposals “usurp” the legitimate powers of other campus constituencies, and threaten the college’s accreditation.
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