Student Is Sanctioned for Creating Class-Registration Web Site
I especially enjoy the University's ludicrous overreaction (seriously, read the letters they sent this guy; specifically the one where they demand he do the job of the "myUCF" team and come up with how he would update the application -- wherein he is specifically forbidden from saying he'd write something like the app that people obviously found useful since, you know, they were using it.)<p>I also enjoy that he has to attend a 'coaching session' where they teach him that University policy is sacrosanct -- and <i>he has to pay for it</i> as well as write a "spelled-checked [sic]" research paper about his coaching session (WTF is there to 'research' about an hourlong chat?)<p>What's even more bizarre is why this app exists at all. PeopleSoft's "SA" module that UCF is using for registration <i>includes a waitlist feature</i> that already does all of this -- actually, it's better, because it just pops people off the stack when a spot becomes available.<p>So, let's be clear:<p>- UCF willfully refuses to enable the waitlist option in PS<p>- Student uses a public interface to replicate the functionality<p>- Star chamber declares the student broke a nebulous IT policy and that he has to write humiliating 'research papers' as contrition.<p>And people wonder why higher ed is less and less valued...