A professor who teaches statistics in the business school at Texas Tech has lodged an official complaint about grades he gave students being improperly changed by administrators so the students could graduate. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal has the story.

We often hear about academic standards being lowered to retain students, but here it seems that they were lowered to help some finish their degrees on time. No matter that the students didn’t actually earn the necessary grades; a compassionate administrator decided they shouldn’t be inconvenienced by having to retake the course.

Two years ago, the Pope Center published this article by a then-faculty member at Winston Salem State who also complained about administrators changing student grades. That complaint put her on the enemies list and it cost her her job.