Nunca he soportado l@s pitiyanquis. De veras que hay algo en mi estómago que se revuelca cada vez que oigo algún/a puertorriqueñ@ colonizad@ hablando de cómo todo en EU es mejor y en Puerto Rico no sabemos hacer nada bien.

Cuando estaba en mi primer año de universidad en Puerto Rico, me acuerdo, como si fuera ahora, de vari@s profesores/as que nos hablaban del manoseado concepto “honor system.” Según ell@s, este sistema es el que dicta que l@s profesores/as no deben velar a sus estudiantes porque ést@s no se copiarán dado a su gran sentido de honor y responsabilidad. Esa táctica intimidatoria venía acompañada de algo más: la sentencia de que en el imperio, l@s estudiantes se adhieren estrictamente a este código.

Me acuerdo como ahora de mi profesora de computadora de primer año que nos hablaba de cómo l@s profesores/as americanos se iban y dejaban salones de 80 estudiantes solos en un examen porque ell@s sabían que sus estudiantes no se iban a copiar. Bueno, sabe Dios si los subgraduad@s no se atreven, pero es obvio que a los graduad@s no les importa un carajo.

Recientemente, en Duke cogieron a 34 estudiantes de primer año de MBA haciendo trampa en sus exámenes. Alan Zinder, de The New York Times, nos habla sobre los significados de este escándalo.

Duke MBA cheating scandal may reflect national trend

By ALAN FINDER
New York Times
April 30, 2007, 11:18PM

Duke University is trying to deal with a cheating scandal involving 34 first-year business graduate students in an era when national surveys have suggested that cheating is widespread among their peers.

In a survey released last September by a Rutgers University professor, 56 percent of business graduate students admitted having cheated, compared with 54 percent in engineering, 48 percent in education and 45 percent in law school. More than 5,300 students at 54 universities were surveyed from 2002 to 2004.

“This is self-reported evidence of cheating, so it’s probably underestimated,” said Donald McCabe, the professor who oversaw the survey. “I would say at many business schools it is a part of the culture. You want to talk rationalizations? I could give you thousands of them: ‘Everybody else does it; it’s the teachers’ fault; you have to do it to get ahead.’ “

The 34 at Duke face steep penalties after university officials determined they collaborated on answers of an exam. Mike Hemmerich, an associate dean at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, said a professor noticed unusual consistencies in the answers of a take-home exam, which the students seeking a master’s degree in business administration were supposed to do on their own.

School officials declined to identify the course, the professor or the students.

Nine of the students face expulsion, according to the ruling.

Fifteen were suspended for a year and given a failing grade in the course, nine were given a failing grade in the course, and one got a failing grade on the exam. Four others were exonerated. They are likely to appeal and can attend classes while awaiting decisions.

In general, fewer than 10 students a year at the business school are found guilty of cheating, said Hemmerich. [NO SOLAMENTE ESTAN COPIANDOSE, SINO QUE A LA MAYORIA NO LOS COGEN]

Many of the country’s leading business schools, including Duke’s, have been emphasizing honesty and ethical conduct.

At Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, an accusation surfaced in December that some students cheated on an open-book, take-home exam on journalistic ethics. The school did not comment on the outcome of the case.

 

Y antes de que empiecen a decir que “probablemente son los extranjeros”, piensen quiénes son los dueños de corporaciones americanas, quiénes son los empresarios en EU, etc… Son esas mismas personas que se gradúan de esas escuelas prestigiosas y, muchas de ellas son WASPs.