I’m not going to discuss the “ethics” of it, but college students better wake up. They are leaving a “profile” on many online sites, i.e. MySpace, Facebook, gaming forums, etc, and employers are checking the sites before they consider hiring them. Then the kid wonders why he didn’t get the job.
This will only go on for a few more years, until the realization that if you eliminate everyone with an embarassing picture or statement on-line, there's nobody left in the country and people won't care anymore.
Its not just college students. I have a sister in law who has so many pictures of her children, home etc that we all wonder what is wrong with her. Its alarming how much info she gives out on her myspace and she is in her 40’s. I don’t even understand why she has a myspace....
I agree, employers have a right to choose the people that they hire and if they see something objectionable on a website...more power to em. But to deny a degree because of the flimsy reason they give doesn’t make sense. I always thought degrees were given because of academic performance, not on personal integrity. If that were so, I don’t think any person I know who went onto college would have graduated....some of those parties were wild.
This university is a day late and a dollar short.
A degree is a product, ESPECIALLY an education degree. The univsity is under the impression that somehow they do not live in the commercial environment. She paid for that degree, she past the grades, she is entitled to the benefit of her bargain.
I think these nutcase professors and administrators are just upset they don’t get invited to the cool parties.