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Does anyone else find it amusing that you can buy ethics essays on the internet?

I know, the "model term paper" companies say that the ethics essays they sell are for reference purposes only. But come on, who spends $100 for a guideline. You can buy 5 books for that, not a 5 page paper!

No, people buy ethics essays to turn into their Philosophy, Business Ethics, and other classes.

The reason so many people buy ethics essays and other model term papers is because they don't care about the course. Course requirements are determined by egghead faculty senates who believe their role is to enlighten students.

Some students want to be enlightened. They thrive on liberal arts classes. They're not the one buying the ethics essays.

No, the students buying model term papers are the ones who want the degree, the credentials, the earning power education will buy. They could care less about the education itself.

And is it any wonder that so many students are in this situation. From kindergarten, we're told that you need a college education to succeed. But many students don't see the college education as relevant to their lives or their future careers. Studying art history, political science, and yes, philosophy, doesn't figure in.

Because it is so easy to buy model term papers and ethics essays on the internet, faculty at universities are having to deal with the problem. One solution is to have a pop quiz on the day the paper is due where students are asked to write a short essay about their experience writing the paper.

Other professors are assigning narrow topics hoping that students will not be able to find model term papers on the subject.

Still other professors require students to submit work in progress which makes it harder to buy an off the shelf paper.

But when you're buying ethics essays, you'll find work-arounds to all of these problems. The professor may catch you once, but it won't happen again.

What academic faculty must do is make the assingments and the distribution requirements more meaningful to students. College is an investment these days, not an intellectual luxury. Yet general education courses are still geared toward the student who has four years of leisure and a guaranteed cushy job at the end.

Furthermore, college faculty must stop teaching what interests them only and begin to engage students. I can't tell you the number of faculty I had who hated teaching the lower division or general education sections. They wanted to teach the upper division and graduate seminars on their narrow subject of interest. Then they wondered why these same lower division students didn't make more of an effort. Faculty aren't rewarded in any way for engaging their lower division students.

Yes, it's ironic that you can buy ethics essays on the internet. But it is also symptomatic of a larger problem in acadame.

Article Published: Monday 17th December 2007