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Post by petrocelli on Apr 1, 2009 15:14:20 GMT -5
Jake is a very good student and qualified for academic assistance. Plus, I believe the local kids get a tuition break anyway. He'll be a very good player for the Bonnies.
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Post by bricksmyth on Apr 1, 2009 15:18:08 GMT -5
Jake is a very good student and qualified for academic assistance. Plus, I believe the local kids get a tuition break anyway. He'll be a very good player for the Bonnies. Not the point I was making. He obviously wasn't not taking a full ride because of the kind of person he was, but more likely because he had no other choice if he wanted to come to SBU. Also, 80% of SBU students are given some sort of academic assistance.
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Post by bonnieball on Apr 2, 2009 7:17:00 GMT -5
Jake is a very good student and qualified for academic assistance. Plus, I believe the local kids get a tuition break anyway. He'll be a very good player for the Bonnies. Not the point I was making. He obviously wasn't not taking a full ride because of the kind of person he was, but more likely because he had no other choice if he wanted to come to SBU. Also, 80% of SBU students are given some sort of academic assistance. Academic and tuition assistance are great things and I am all for them. Now all they need are academic standards.
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Post by maplehurst on Apr 2, 2009 7:33:27 GMT -5
bonnieball: Academic standards are a long way off. When I taught at a major Big East University which will remain nameless (It has a big tower and is near Duquesne), Academic standards were beginning to come down with pass-fail courses. Eventually, even the graduate school began to lower standards. The graduate school made up for it by only admitting "can't miss" students who would have earned a degree no matter what the standards. I just don't see that university professors want to set high standards of perfromance anymore. Not sure if our society does, except for surgeons, who may get litigation against them.
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