Texas A&M professor failed the entire class

[coolweather]

GALVESTON, Texas -

A professor at Texas A&M Galveston failed an entire class, and he outlined his reasons in a fiery email sent to those students.

But the university won’t quite be backing up the professor’s actions.

In the email professor Irwin Horwitz sent to his students, he called them a disgrace to the school. He said he will no longer be teaching the course and will be giving everyone in the class a failing grade.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/professor-at-texas-am-galveston-fails-entire-class/32562452

[DmitriR]

Whatever happened to individual accountability? It seems like it should be possible to fail people caught cheating and discipline those who were rude. Collective punishment just diffuses responsibility; if everyone is to blame for everything, then no one is.

[Gator88NE]

After what he calls a semester of disrespect, backstabbing, lying, and cheating, Horwitz had all he could take.

“Yesterday I reached the breaking point,” he said.

He sent a lengthy email to his Strategic Management class explaining that they would all be failing the course. He said the students proved to be incompetent and lack the maturity level to enter the workforce.

I don’t see the problem…based on my experience, it looks like this group of students have “executive leadership” written all over it…

In the email he cited examples of students cheating, telling him to** “chill out,”** and inappropriate conduct.

I have to admit, I had one senior level class, where the professor called us his “worse” class ever…but we EARNED that title, not by telling him to “chill out” but through pure incompetence! Kids these days…always looking for short cuts.

[coolweather]

Probably the professor meant no harm? He just wanted to send a message to the students and the faculty?

[JustOneDad]

Future business leaders.

Would it be safe to say that solutions to the ethics crisis in business aren’t taking root at that university?