Timeline for Is it unethical of me and can I get in trouble if a professor passes me based on an oral exam without attending class?
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| Oct 29, 2016 at 18:06 | comment | added | Jon Story | Couldn't agree more with the morality part: we often get bogged down in "How was this learned?" when the reality is that education is there to teach you things, and qualifications simply trusted evidence that you are competent. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 17:43 | comment | added | bishop | It's also why an institution may loudly "revoke on the rolls" (ie, press release what they're doing and the rationale) but only, if ever, quietly defend any legal action brought on them by the graduate. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 17:41 | comment | added | bishop | The usual route to revocation is when the institution can show the student materially breached the then-current academic standard (eg, plagiarism). This is pretty expensive to research, argue, and prove for an institution, which is why it's usually only done when an institution wants to distance itself from a graduate. Examples Bezrukov of Harvard and Schmitt of Semmelweis University. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 17:32 | comment | added | tonysdg | @bishop: I think that satisfies my "can cite relevant law" condition. +1 to you, and +1 for DLCom! | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 17:27 | comment | added | bishop | @tonysdg Earned degrees are private party contracts. (Honorary degrees are merely awards.) Contract case law only applies if one side alleges the other did not uphold the four corners of that contract. Stripping an earned degree is hard, because the institution has to post-facto prove the student failed to uphold the contract. They'd have to explain why X years ago the student satisfied the contract but now doesn't. The usual reasons that condition holds is (a) record keeping failure or (b) internal malfeasance, and neither of those are contract defaults on behalf of the student. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 0:39 | history | edited | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 27, 2016 at 21:00 | comment | added | BioGeo | I don't know in the U.S., but in all places I've been in Europe, the professor is responsible for putting the grades and noone can blame the student for the way they passed the exam. There are no laws that govern these things. At the end, it's the reputation of the university and their rules. But in anycase, if someone could have a problem, that would be the teacher. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 19:23 | comment | added | Juan Alvez | @tonysdg yes I looked deeply into that, that did relief me a bit as I actually knew the material, those students at unc didn't. and their degrees weren't revoked siting university error. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 19:11 | comment | added | tonysdg | -1: Unless you're a lawyer and can cite relevant law, there's no way to ascertain that the OP won't ever lose their degree. I agree it's extremely unlikely -- probably unheard of -- but it's still in the realm of possibilities. The UNC grade fixing scandal comes to mind -- the university did not revoke the degrees in question, but it's not a stretch of the imagination to see it happening. | |
| Oct 27, 2016 at 18:57 | vote | accept | Juan Alvez | ||
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| Oct 27, 2016 at 15:23 | history | answered | DLCom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |