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I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
Holy fucking shit! But, seriously, this does not sound like a firing offense, though it would be grounds for some disciplinary action. Is there more to this story?
(Thanks to David Ross for the pointer.)
Here's a more informative article than the CHE's that's also not behind a paywall.
http://theadvocate.com/news/12669113-123/lsu-professor-fired-for-using
Somebody needs to organize a national "curse at your students" day.
It seems like there wasn't even a warning, so how can tenure be overturned so easily? I hope the answer is it can't, and she is reinstated and make the university pay. Maybe there's more to this, although it certainly doesn't seem like it.
According to the Chronicle, she's been accused of sexual harassment. I think we should always believe reports of sexual harassment, and I don't think firing is an inappropriate response to sexual harassment.
Sooooo, if a cynical university administrator were to fire someone for parking in his spot, then cover his posterior his ass by telling the press that it was an instance sexual harassment?
Please tell me that the previous post is somebody making an attempt at satire.
BL COMMENT: I'm skeptical about the sincerity of the prior comment as well.
Perhaps Anon Fem really meant 'we should always find initial reports of sexual harassment credible, but seek further information and, upon attaining further information, adjust our credence accordingly'…
I strongly suspect this professor crossed a line. But I don't put it past the realm of possibility that this is another case of hyper-sensitivity gone wrong.
The hypocrisy exhibited by putative adults over foul language will never cease to amaze me. I have to believe that the Puritans gave less of a shit. But it is poetic justice that the name of the LSU system president is F. King.
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