SIU In the News (Fun Stuff, Responses to Our Culture)
You have to smile when your alma mater makes it into the news.
From the September 7, 2008 column of "News of the Weird":
Illinois requires all state employees to pass an annual 10-question, multiple-choice "ethics" test (whose format lends itself to simplistic answers that, for instance, most college students might handle easily). In January, state ethics officials declined to accept the passing grades of 65 Southern Illinois University professors because they finished "too quickly." Asserted a reviewing state official, anyone who failed to spend at least 10 minutes on the test was being unreasonable. [Inside Higher Education, 1-23-08, 5-5-08]
You can't make this stuff up...
Labels: Fun Stuff, Responses to Our Culture
posted by Tom Henderson @ 8:54 AM
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1 Comments:
*sigh*
Between this and all the other controversies surrounding SIU, I'm beginning to think that my degree is actually worth less than what I paid for it.
If Poshard and some of the other administrators don't get their collective act together and I mean quickly, enrollment is going to erode so fast that they won't know what hit them until it's too late.
On the other hand, this kind of news is always good for the community colleges in the area.
Not quite a silver lining, but I'm working at it...
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