December 19, 2003

Arkansas Professors Vote No Confidence in Trustees Over Plan to Give Credit for D's Earned Elsewhere

By PIPER FOGG

Faculty members at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville voted no confidence this month in the University of Arkansas System's Board of Trustees. The vote was in response to a board decision to allow students who had earned D's elsewhere to transfer those grades for credit to colleges in the system.

The professors said the new rule, which makes it easier for athletes with low grades to play sports there, puts athletics above academics. The no-confidence resolution also criticized