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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:51 am
Post subject: Re: Dupree Business School |
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Article in Washington Post by one of the nation's most respected
education reporters, Jay Mathews, about Georgia Tech student falsely
accused of cheating. Some of the nation's leading educators go on the
record to lambaste Georgia Tech, saying the students did nothing
wrong. This article generated so much negative publicity for Georgia
Tech, the school abandoned its policy to adopt one more like MIT's.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A58274-2002Apr16
Slashdot: "Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning" – 979 archived
comments – the majority negative toward Georgia Tech
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/16/1827234
Technique: Georgia Tech student newspaper: Students Helping Students
Does Not Constitute Cheating – student describes "Orwellian" nightmare
of going to the school.
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique/issues/spring2002/2002-01-25/10.html
Article by Jay Mathews in Washington Post on Georgia Tech's retreat on
"no collaboration" policy, admitting it was wrong, tacitly exonerating
all who were falsely accused.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A56366-2002Jun4¬Found=true
Georgia Tech internal report on cheating scandal showing almost 1,000
students, many minorities and international accused in a two year
period. More than 30% say they were mistreated, denied a fair hearing
and due process.
http://facultysenate.gatech.edu/EB2003-072203-Attach2A.ppt
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education defended students
falsely accused by Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech was added to FIRE's
watch list after it trampled the student's Constitutional rights to
due process.
http://www.thefire.org/cases.php
http://www.thefire.org/issues/process.php3
Georgia Tech 1998 internal report: "Causes of Cheating – Unclear
Expectations in the Classroom" commissioned just after Dean Karen Boyd
was hired as Georgia Tech's judge, jury and executioner, and she
initiated the first chapter of the so-called cheating scandal. She has
a "hanging judge" conviction rate that would make the Taliban proud.
The report, that she ordered, clearly defines where the fault lies.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ans/asee00.pdf |
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thc
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 6:29 am
Post subject: Re: Dupree Business School |
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This (and other information) has been sent to hundreds of professional
college counselors and guidance counselors at science and tech high
schools throughout the United States. In addition, college presidents,
who vote in the US News ranking, have gotten this either by post or
electronically.
http://www.studentsreview.com - 50% of the Georgia Tech students
surveyed on this MIT student website say they wish they had gone to
another school. The uncensored comments are overwhelmingly negative.
Students at comparable engineering schools - MIT, Stanford, Duke and
Carnegie-Mellon, and others – seem to like their schools fine. At U.S.
News & World Report, GT ranks at the bottom for freshman retention, %
graduating in six years, and student satisfaction, based on alumni
donations.
http://www.princetonreview.com - In 2002, based on 100,000 interviews
at 345 schools, Georgia Tech rates #2 for the "least happy" student
body in the country, and #4 for professors who "squeeze the life out
of the material." In 2003, Tech was #3 for lousy professors. Tech gets
low rankings in half a dozen other negative categories, as well.
http://www.isi.org - The Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 2004
"Choosing the Right College" guidebook, endorsed by William Bennett,
Thomas Sowell and other conservatives, features a less than peachy
critique of Georgia Tech – uncaring administration, serious crime
problem, creeping political correctness and a student body lacking in
intellectual curiosity. Along with Princeton Review, this makes two
national guidebooks with unflattering reviews of Georgia Tech.
http://www.assessment.gatech.edu/eReports/Negative%20Publicity%20at%20Georgia%20Techfinal4.pdf
Georgia Tech's own internal report on the Princeton Review showed GT
students significantly less happy with the quality of their education
and their college experience, than their peers at similar schools.
http://www.geocities.com/gtsux2002/ - This website, by Georgia Tech
students, says it all in its name. The Washington Post article on
Georgia Tech (see links page) is textbook on how Tech treats its
students.
http://www.police.gatech.edu - Georgia Tech is unsafe. For nine years
Atlanta has been ranked by Morgan Quinto in the top three most
dangerous cities in the country and Georgia Tech is located smack in
the middle of one of the city's most dangerous crime areas. In 1999,
Tech was ranked in the top 20 most dangerous college campuses in the
country. A series of articles in the Georgia Tech student newspaper –
The Technique (July 12, Nov. 1, 2002 & Jan 31, March 14 & 21, 2003 -
http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/technique/ ) detail rising campus crime,
including students robbed at gunpoint in dorms and women sexually
assaulted in the student center. www.securityoncampus.org has a link
to the latest FBI campus crime report, that finds Georgia Tech the #4
most dangerous campus in the country.
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2003-11-13/news_feature2.html
http://www.blackenterprise.com/ExclusivesekOpen.asp?id=106 Black
Enterprise magazine – Jan. 2003 issue – Based on interviews with some
200 African-American professionals and academics, BE picks Atlanta as
a top destination for African-American college students, but redneck
Georgia Tech fails to make the grade. BE lists four Atlanta schools –
three traditionally black schools and Emory - as recommended in the
top 50. BE names half-a-dozen engineering schools as minority
friendly, but not Georgia Tech.
Business Week magazine – Oct. 21, 2002 issue - While Business Week
names its top 30 MBA schools, Georgia Tech was deleted from its
recommended list. It is the only school in the 2000 list to be removed
from the 2002 list. US News followed suit and dropped GT from its top
50 in April 2003. To see how Georgia Tech compares with other business
management programs, go to www.bschool.com/ussbys.html and see a
side-by-side comparisons of the best business programs in the nation
and world. Georgia Tech does not make a single list. In the Financial
Times 2004 rankings, Georgia Tech drops from #85 to #94, the lowest
ranked U.S. school in the list.
http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html
see original post for how Dupree is doing today
Finally, Georgia Tech has raised its out-of-state costs to almost
$25,000 in the last two years, while slashing its operating budget.
That means higher prices, more crowded classrooms, fewer class
offerings and more classes taught by grad students. Tech brags that it
takes five or more years to "get out" – as if from boot camp, making
it more expensive than most private schools. Considering that
Princeton Review ranks GT in the top 20 for lousy professors, dorms
like dungeons, bad food and poor quality of life, out-of-state
students do not get what they pay for.
You may think this list accentuates only the negative, but it is
nearly impossible to find anything positive about Georgia Tech that
was not generated by Tech's marketing department Parents and students
considering Georgia Tech need the information – good and bad – to make
an informed choice. Finally, according to the GT website, mosquitoes
carrying West Nile Virus have been found on campus. Good luck in your
college search.
FYI - According to the Princeton Review 2004 rankings out Monday
8/18/2003, for the second year in a row Georgia Tech has ranked in the
top four for worst professors in the nation. (that could explain the
poor showing in the Chinese ranking system)
http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/profiles/rankings.asp?listing=1022905<ID=1
Georgia Institute of Technology's
Best 351 Colleges Rankings
Rank List Category
#2 Class Discussions Rare Academics
#3 Professors Get Low Marks Academics
#12 Professors Make Themselves Scarce Academics
#16 Campus is Tiny, Unsightly, or Both Quality of Life
#11 Dorms Like Dungeons Quality of Life |
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