Read “Online Professors Pose as Students to Encourage Real Learning,” Marc Parry’s May 29, 2009 Chronicle of Higher Education article regarding “ghost students.” Some professors (and ethicists) argue that professors who pose as fake students is a “gray” area of online learning—of course, others argue that it’s a smart idea, and others that it’s flat-out wrong.

by Greg Metz, PhD

My underlying motives for working in higher education have always been modest…just to change the world, save the planet, cultivate human self-actualization…that sort of thing. Yes, I am inevitably somewhat disappointed when the revolution doesn’t emerge quite as planned.  But I am a believer (and, by the way, a Monkees fan).

I am a sociologist by training and have an extremely fascinating, applied-sociology role here at UC: I coordinate the Peer Leaders for First Year Learning Communities. So…what’s on my mind? Only the future of the USA.