Negative Grades????
I’ve made a post that got a lot of traction before, and this time I urge y’all to blow this up too
I have a friend taking Intro to C (COP 3223C) and he’s undergoing some crazy shit with his professor. Apparently some students were caught “cheating” with chatgpt (which btw the syllabus says you’re allowed to use for editing purposes which I'm being told is what most people did). Now after having found this out, he’s giving out negative grades to all of his students to ensure that they all receive a C- as their final grade. People must email him to prove their innocence, and a lot of them are straight up getting their grades lowered even further because they were apparently “unable to prove their innocence”. The average grade he is giving out is a -40% (yes, negative) with some students getting as low as -170%.
This is a big deal for a lot of students, not only because it royally screws over their GPAs, but also because there are some majors who REQUIRE students to perform well in this class as a prerequisite for other classes in their major. The professor is actively screwing over all the students who literally did nothing wrong. And the scummiest part is he’s not even failing them just to keep his pass rates up. He lowered their grades just enough to avoid failing them and still screw them over. There are students who can’t even afford to take another semester and now they may be forced to pay extra for no reason.
Feel free to read some reviews on his rate my professor. His reviews tripled just last night following this controversy. Some of them are actually pretty funny, but a lot of them are really disheartening and show the struggles these students have. Here are some that provide more info on the situation, if you want to read the rest then I’ll leave a link attached to the post.
Please please PLEASE try to blow this post up. It's affecting a lot of students and if it gets enough traction the proper authorities may be able to help. Last time when I posted the 1000 boxes post, the mail office actually saw it and was able to help my friend deal with any additional boxes that came in after the fact. I think we can accomplish something similar here.
IF YOU ARE TAKING THIS CLASS OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES AND IS GOING THROUGH THIS PROBLEM, PLEASE HAVE THEM CONTACT THE FOLLOWING:
Michael Georgiopoulos (Professor and CECS Dean): [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
Damla Turgut (Professor and Chair of Computer Science): [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
Yoav Peles (Professor, Chair of the Dept. Of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering): [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
Timothy Letzring (Vice President of Academic Affairs): [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
Edit: heres the link it didn’t post when I attached it before for some reason