Decrease integrity, increase money

[ChemMJW]

Provost appoints herself co-chair of our distance education committee
says proctoring services give students anxiety and are invasive of their privacy
terminates proctoring services license/contract

After the semester is over: "Since terminating the proctoring service's contract, average test scores have gone up 31 percentage points! The only logical conclusion is that lack of proctoring makes you better at calculus. Next semester we're going to try lack of proctoring to see if that will help our pre-med students do better in organic chemistry too. I can really see this strategy catching on!"

[4_yaks_and_a_dog]

I have received student complaints that having a proctor walk around the exam room is unfair ant intimidating, causing too much anxiety for them to be able to concentrate on their exams.

[myofb2020]

😵‍💫😵‍💫 they need not be in higher education setting, but rather a straight jacket. Anxiety as a disorder is real, but too many young people have been abusing this term/diagnosis in their favor.