I graduated from NY (I O )U and am embarrassed for the university. He should have gone directly to the administration about those caught cheating. They should have been expelled from the school (so that MY degree is not tainted by this). At the least, those who were caught cheating should not have been allowed to evaluate the professor (kind of like the criminals running the prison, no?) Instead, we have whiney kids caught doing what they may well have been doing all throughout their education and not for one minute willing to deal with the consequences of their own actions.
In my view, the professor should have gotten the biggest raise of his career—it means a) he was auditing the students’ work carefully and b) valuing integrity/honesty and imposing consequence on short-cutting/cheating.
Did NYU have an honor code when you attended? The college my daughter attended had a pretty rigorous honor code, and students could be either sanctioned or tossed out, just for violating that. Then again, the school also really cares about its reputation.
RE: I graduated from NY (I O )U
Very good play on words my friend. NYU has the distinction of being one of the most expensive colleges to enroll in nowadays.
Hope you’ve paid off all your student loans (or maybe you have rich patrons?) :)