August 10, 2007
Auburn U. Settles With Professor Who Handed Out Easy Grades to Athletes
Auburn University has settled its dispute with a tenured professor who was involved in a grade scandal exposed last year, in which athletes and other students received easy grades in snap courses.
The university agreed last month to end dismissal proceedings against Thomas A. Petee, a sociology professor and former chairman of the sociology department, who was accused last summer of handing out high grades to students in independent "directed reading" courses that required little work
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