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Originally Posted by Shaggy
For many of them, yes, it is about lining their own pockets.
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Tenured professors are above morals and ethics; they can do as they please.
I had a drafting class professor that would show up at the beginning of class, assign a problem to be worked, and go away until quitting time to pick up the finished product. He'd return it "graded" at the beginning of the next "class" and repeat the process. He literally taught nothing. I at least had a year of drafting from High School so he wasn't going to teach me anything new even if he'd tried and I did fine second semester when we got a real teacher but a lot of his other victims didn't have that edge.
A math professor would cram a full semester's worth of material with finals and all and end the course the last day for dropping a course. If you lied your grade, you "stayed", if you were flunking, you dropped the course. It was hell to pass and many switched away but as many switched in; that extra free period came in real handy over the last two months.
I'm sure every college survivor can list their own horror stories.
Textbook hijinks are the least of them, but at least they explain why the student in the lawsuit did what he did; in that kind of free-for-all environment if you see an opening, you take it.
Just ask Michael Dell, Bill Gates, or Zuckerberg.