Just one more participation trophy.

Concordia is almost on the campus of UT Austin. What a pathetic cheat of student money/loan money for these students. The reason for college is to learn, not get a participation trophy. The grade is to show how much you learned NOT the end goal. Typical of academics all across this country. Those students can now pay for their loss of learning when re-paying their scam student loan debt. Abusive hypocrisy to the learning/teaching system.

Let's hear it for our future Engineers, Architects and Doctors!

It certainly is a brave new world...

All because a so-called "professor" is too lazy to adjust the curriculum for the class.

Please note that the artcle does not state what course was being taught. The vast majority of classes being taught are not tecnical in nature; engineering, medical, etc. It is unlikely that the students in the class mentioned in this article will ever impact anyones life adversely unless you believe messing up "paper or plastic" at the check out is life threatening.

Link says she’s an English teacher. Unfortunately for the majority of our woefully unprepared students, English is technical in nature.

True, but the article also elaborates that this professor isn't the only one...

"But it appears that not all professors agree with students like Reed, as Columbia University professor Jenny Davidson echoed McIntosh’s rationale in an op-ed for the Washington Post, in which she called on fellow professors to give their students “an automatic A” for the spring 2020 semester, as well as focus on their “emotional demands.”"

Why not give them all a college degree now? Just make sure their tuition is paid up. And to further aid the crisis grant all medical students their medical degrees so they can go right into hospitals now.

That's what they are trying to do.

Note to self - throw any job application from a student of Concordia University Texas in the trash.

The trash is where it belongs...

You won't be saying that when you can't find a good basket anywhere because basket weavers didn't have the proper college coursework.

LOL

English professor....

so the grade is not really that important anyways.

I wouldn't trust an "English professor" to teach STEM. Still sad though to see these grads at the checkout line, altough they did get an A for something.

It does say "English professor"...don't know if that is a reference to nationality or course...

Indoctrination station 101 is the class I believe.

Maybe you should learn to read English, because it clearly states that was the course being taught.

Good one!!

Ignorance tolerated will be perpetuated at a rate much quicker than COVID-19

LGBTQ studies

,,,while we slide quickly into THIRD-World status!

Most likely it is his fear of Charlie Kirk getting a recording of the way he has radicalized his English class into communist propaganda.

Did that kid wearing the MAGA hat to class get an A, too? (sarc)

"English professor Jo McIntosh"

Probably not an engineering, architecture, or med school course.

Although I still hate to smacking my head on a dangling participle while passing through a metaphor.

They will have great grades, and employer hires them, and then when the rubber hits the road, the employer finds out the kid doesn't know anything. Sad state of affairs.

In a small business: this is more or less expected now, that they have to be taught what they really need to know. All school does is measure the aptitude and attitude.

This action undercuts that. I would hire Kalah Reed based on this, but we can't tell him from any of the other students anymore since they all got the same grade.

Meaningless grade from worthless university. "Graduates" from like
universities clearly lack the discipline and knowledge to claim anything
other than an extended High School degree.

These teachers should have their pay docked for the time that they haven't been teaching.

If I were an employer I would immediately scratch this school's graduates from any hiring in my company.

the reason for college is to network.. you can learn at a library if you want

Wow. Can't wait to drive over a bridge built by a Coronavirus legacy graduate!

Regarding generations and infrastructure, under Baby Boomer political hegemony from the nineties to today, American infrastructure has fallen into complete neglect. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives us as of last year a D- ranking. Weather-related power outages have increased tenfold since the eighties, we have states without dam inspectors, and we only rank 13th internationally after having been best in the world in the 60s and 70s.

It's almost as if Universities are mostly funded by customers called "Students".

No. Civilization is and very soon we will be its victims as well.

I was thinking the same thing. This prof just cancelled the meaning of "earning" an A. (I am a retired teacher.)

Amazingly these same people look down on my college because we are 100% online, for profit, AND are not taking any breaks for coronavirus (I'm starting my next class on April 6th). But because I do not attend an expensive brick and mortar, and overrated, '"Snowflake U" they think their degree is better than mine. SMH

Other than lab work, there really isn't much reason for the dinosaur colleges to continue to exist. I just wonder when everyone will realize it. Maybe now?

Everybody’s a winner. Lol

Bravo bravo!

And don't forget to distribute the bumper stickers "Easy A For My Kid - Concordia Playschool".

Not just participation, but excellence. For nothing. I bet the kids who really earned the A's aren't as happy as those who coasted and got them anyway. Communism in a nutshell.

How many reports are being produced of professors not just giving out grades? They are out there just too busy adapting face to face courses to online learning to chime in. You can do it in four days for two or three courses right? The facilities at the university have more than adequate capacity for a 100x+ ramp up in teleconference capacity, etc ? Also you have got a lot of students working to adapt to online instead of face to face courses. Some did not have the money for high speed internet or a fancy laptop but they could get by using the university computer labs until social distancing and closures of facilities. Of course they are all tech wizards? Although my rant is from the perspective of a smaller public university (sorry no rock climbing wall here), there are a lot of similar colleges and universities about the U.S. and there are a lot of students working anywhere from one to three jobs to get through college (even in the age of student loans).

I teach within the STEM area.I won't begin to address grading in non-STEM areas, either from standard or on-line courses other than the observation that there could be an odd flip side to that story and/or it could be much worse than it appears. All details are not available. In science and life the big picture is made up of a lot of details and often some of those details really matter. Is that discussed in journalism anymore?

I like a lot of my colleagues in STEM, are adamant that students earn their grades, you could say quality control. To put it another way, if I come to consciousness in a hospital bed and see one of my former students about to perform some test or procedure, I will be comfortable the individual is competent and I won't be in panic hitting the call button for a chaplin.

It looks like Concordia's diploma has now risen in value to that of toilet-paper.

Exactly my thought before I even scrolled to comments. Great minds think alike.

Higher education is dead in this country.
RIP knowledge.

Give the A - moot point as instructors grade on the curve to keep their jobs! But for heaven's sake the kid is there for an education, not just a grade! So make them finish the 'coursework' - the reading/writing assignments whatever that may be. Then at least they will have absorbed something they didn't have before today? No wonder our country needs all those H1B visas. Our education system is graduating dunces - virus or no virus!

The wussification of 🇺🇸 continues...

Typical! Give the snowflakes what they didn't earn. That will keep them snowflakes for life.