{"id":25239,"date":"2023-05-02T12:06:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=25239"},"modified":"2023-05-02T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:06:39","slug":"furmans-david-eubanks-describes-the-folly-of-the-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-david-eubanks-describes-the-folly-of-the-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s David Eubanks describes the folly of the F"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25279\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25279\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25279 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2023\/05\/david-eubanks-300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/244;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Eubanks, Office of Institutional Assessment and Research.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University&#8217;s David Eubanks writes a guest post for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/opinion\/blogs\/just-visiting\/2023\/05\/01\/guest-post-our-grading-system-gets-f\">Inside Higher Education<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Our Grading System Gets an F.&#8221; As assistant vice president for institutional effectiveness at the university, Eubanks finds himself in a sea of data related to student success. &#8220;The importance of grading practices and GPA is everywhere I look &#8211; graduation rates and learning, teacher qualities and learning, instructional quality and learning, selection of majors and sense of belonging in college,&#8221; he writes.<\/p>\n<p>With the stakes so high for students, he explains why assigning a grade of F is a misguided practice. He first advances five reasons why institutions of higher learning have traditionally given the dreaded mark over the decades, then he summarily debunks them all.<\/p>\n<p>Eubanks holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Southern Illinois University and, since 1991, has served variously as a faculty member and administrator at four private colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the F doesn\u2019t mean what we think it means? Eubanks unpacks what it means when a student \u201cfails.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,1935],"tags":[2061,2060,1482],"class_list":["post-25239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-in-the-news","category-inside-higher-ed","tag-grading-practices","tag-student-failure","tag-student-success"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}