02-05-2026, 06:16 PM
(02-04-2026, 05:35 PM)calfan Wrote: https://garryslist.org/posts/stanford-cheating
Great article, very insightful. As Stanford alums, what do you think? This is a pervasive issue at Cal as well. So many kids gaming the system to claim a disability to get more time on tests, reduced courseload, priority enrollment, housing, etc.
I'm an instructor at UC Santa Barbara. The typical number of acommodation requests for one of my classes is under 10% of the enrolled students, and it's been that way for close to two decades. Personally, I haven't found it to be a big deal or anything close to a problem. Students with accommodations succeed or fail at about the same rate as the students who don't have accommodations. However, I don't know the campus-wide numbers. Maybe they are higher for certain majors (I teach in the humanities).
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)