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And if you can say, over a grade dispute, "But it says in the syllabus" you've usually won your case.
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The president of one company whose pet products received a failing grade disputed the findings.
"Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes" (news article, Feb. 18) indicates a rather recent phenomenon among college students.
Suzanne McDermott Annapolis, Md., Feb. 18, 2009 To the Editor: Based on more than two decades of teaching in college programs geared toward working adults, I would offer an additional explanation for the sense of entitlement to high grades that in turn leads to grade disputes.
There are many other factors that have increased costs over the last 20 years, among them the cost of building and maintaining a computer infrastructure; the costs of litigation over everything from intellectual property suits to grade disputes; and the vast increase in the number of highly paid upper-level administrators.
It was also true that the student policy, with its focus on grade disputes, did not entirely address the sorts of issues that concerned postdocs.
Although the aforementioned grade disputes do require some degree of professor-student interaction, they are usually argued in the impersonal domains of cyberspace.
Professors have very little time to devote to grade disputes.
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