At 10:38 AM -0800 11/24/99, RICHARD PISACRETA wrote:
>>Outrageous it may be, but not as an infringement of academic
>>freedom,
>The latter concerns the _content_ of course material presented,
>not the
>rigor with which it is taught or graded.
>
>Besides, tell me what grade distributions you want and I'll
>write the exams
>to give them to you.
>
>>PAUL K. BRANDON
>
>But, Paul, don't you think if a committee tells someone that their course
>criteria doesn't fit their views, and you are expected to change them
>accordingly, it is an infringement?
Only if those criteria involve _content_.
If the argument is not with my content, but simply how rigourously I grade,
then the issue is not academic freedom, much as one might like it to be.
Again, we must distinguish between academic custom and academic freedom.
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Psychology Dept Minnesota State University, Mankato *
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