…hundreds of pages of legal documents, as well as interviews with former students and instructors, suggest the surveys themselves were a central component of a business model that, according to lawsuits and investigators, deceived consumers,,,
Source: At Trump University, Students Recall Pressure to Give Positive Reviews.
Here is my take.
I’m a former math professor. So, what is the difference between the above statement, and the following email to a dean at Wash. Univ. in St. Louis, and the his response?
From my email to the Dean of Student Academic Integrity, School of Eng.:
“…about half of the class [got] an A for the problem…about a third [made] less than or equal to 30%…What concerns me even more than the performance of the lower third is that (a) almost all the students turned in this HW problem for full credit…(b) one of my graders…observed that about half the students [just looked up the solution online] This seems to be in fine with what I saw on the test..”
The Dean’s Response:
“…The math and science courses are crucial for student retention in engineering. It pains us to see students give up engineering due to lack of confidence in math and science…”
(The complete original documents are on my blog inside-higher-ed . See “A Tale Out of School”.)
Add to this that the Math Chair told my to teach a critical math course as a “cookbook” course. He said he had just “wrested” a course from Engineering and he wasn’t going to let them take this one. (It doesn’t take much understanding of University budgets to see the motivation that was probably behind this.)
So what I see in Trump’s scam is that he must have learned well in college.
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