CASE IN POINT: STRONACH V. VIRGINIA STATE U. (2008)

Does Academic Freedom Give a Professor the Final Say on Grades?

By LAWRENCE WHITE

Carey E. Stronach, for more than 40 years a tenured professor of physics at Virginia State University, assigned an undergraduate a final grade of D after the student had failed three classroom quizzes. The student claimed to have received A's on two of...

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