This is the last activity for the semester and I have to get an A on this to pass the class, could people please give me good opinions on this? I could really use the help.
Colorado University has enjoyed an incredibly successful year in football for the first
time in a long time largely due to their most valuable player, a junior communication
major. The coach is ecstatic since he recruited this player. The administration of CU is
equally pleased since the success of the football program at CU has initiated increased
enrollment and opened up new sources of external funding with the promise of additional
increases in the future.
However, one of the player’s professors has gathered irrefutable evidence that the
university’s star player cheated on the final exam in a communication class. Additionally,
there is good reason to believe that the coach actually helped the player obtain a copy of
the final test in order to insure that his GPA would remain high enough to continue to play
football at CU during the following season. The communication professor has brought the
problem to the attention of the chair of the Department of Communication who has, in
turn, consulted with the dean who bumped the problem to higher administration officials,
including the president of CU. In response to these charges, the player has admitted to
the cheating but explained that for a month before the exam, he spent many hours
helping his sibling care for their mother who was dying with cancer and wished to remain
home. The player explained that his care giving duties limited his time to prepare
properly for the communication final.
CU policy requires that any student proved guilty of academic dishonesty be expelled
from the university. However, CU policy also requires that a group of the accused
student’s peers review the alleged infraction, including any extenuating circumstances,
and make recommendations regarding the case at hand as well as the disciplinary policy
itself.
CU has formed your group to assess this academic dishonesty case. Your task is to
provide solutions in the form of recommendations to the university. For this case, you
must provide a recommendation as well as reasons for that recommendation. While it is
possible to solve this problem at a shallow or superficial level and not think about the
situation completely, you are required to identify and work out some of the more subtle
complexities involved in the case. In other words, while examining this specific case, also
decide if something should be done regarding the general policies at CU. You will use the
problem-solving strategies from your text to solve this problem. Your group must reach
consensus on your recommendation.
Your FINAL SOLUTION post for this exercise should include the following items:
• Identify and define the problem. (Reiterate what you see as the problem(s).)
• Analyze the problem. (Briefly describe how your group assessed the problem. This
should include discussion about the specific problem and any overlying problems – with
policy, etc. Also, tell me if your group used any of the Tools for Analyzing a Problem
listed in the text.)
• Identify possible solutions. (Reiterate the possible solutions your group came up with in
discussion.)
• Select the best solution. (Tell me what your final solution was. Indicate how you
decided on this solution. What tools of Evaluating Solutions did you use in the process?)
• Implement the solution. (Tell me how your decision should be carried out.)

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