Cenk Uygur
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College Athletes Ace “Phantom" Classes In “Shadow” Curriculums
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October 25, 2014
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7:16Now Playing"The numbers alone are surprising. At the University of North Carolina, more than 3,100 students, many of whom were athletes, took phantom classes in a “shadow curriculum,” netting high marks despite the fact that the classes never met and there wasn’t any work beyond a final paper no one read. The scheme ran for years, between 1993 and 2011, and the athletes “didn’t have to take notes, have to stay awake … they didn’t have to meet with professors … they didn’t have to pay attention or necessarily engage with the material.”
But once past the initial shock of those numbers — or the assessment’s candor — there is little that surprises in the news. There’s nothing new about academic chicanery when it comes to student-athletes, the very term increasingly exposed as a “myth,” in the words of one professor at the University of Notre Dame.” *
Cenk Uygur (), Ana Kasparian (), Desi Doyen () and John Iadarola () discuss.
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