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TimelySubmissionOfGrades 49 - 10 Jul 2012 - Main.HarryKhanna
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           Days after we finished our finals we received the following email from the Dean of our law school which I am reposting here:

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 I don't think anyone who took this class was mislead about Eben's views on grading, nor have they been denied the ability to receive a grade within the administratively determined time period. But by attempting to empower students by giving them grades in a more timely manner, this policy ends up disenfranchising those who wish to have an alternative learning experience with professors who are willing to provide it by pressuring professors to fall in line.

Furthermore, this email frames the entire problem as one of professorial laziness rather than administrative structure and a failure of managing the various expectations placed on academics. Perhaps this proposal would be more palatable to me if Dean Schizer had promised to place himself and every member of his administration on every public shaming list and also agree to a personal fine equivalent to the sum total of all fines allocated on professors as a demonstration of the equal responsibility of management as well as the workers in addressing this issue. Until then, I remain outraged.

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>		-- RohanGrey 10 Jul 2012

Eben is the only professor who provides the "alternative learning experience" you speak of. And he handles the constraints of the grading system rather well. The rest of the professors don't get grades in on time for other reasons. Eben can continue to assign interim grades next year by June 15 and revise them by July 15 without public shaming or penalty.

I admit, I don't really get your outrage over this. This new policy is designed to shame professors that just DGAF and get them to do their jobs. Eben and this class's experience won't really be affected.

Our 'breakpoint' is July 25. After that, work on the wiki will only receive credit if you do independent study with Eben. Next year, that breakpoint will be July 15.

Is your outrage really over a 10 day difference?

-- HarryKhanna 10 Jul 2012


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