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 the quizzes. He submitted faxed copies of his score sheets to Stronach, who concluded that the student had doctored his scores.
