A recent article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette described how a significant number of students at The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) are asking for the chance to delay or reschedule exams.
Most of the students mentioned in the article are students with disabilities or special needs, and I can certainly understand their desire to change the schedule. I respect and appreciate the fact that the university has established a protocol for handling these requests. The article was interesting, but it stirred a memory.
I attended Pitt’s Graduate School of Business in 1976-77. During the second trimester, I received a message (details don’t matter) one Wednesday evening. I was informed that I had to travel to Albany , New York for the weekend I needed to leave early on Friday morning. Unfortunately, I had an accounting exam on Friday.
The next day, Thursday, I visited my professor for Managerial Accounting II. I hated that class, and I was struggling to maintain the B-average which was required of graduate students. Dr. Rossell listened to my sad story and briefly entertained my request to delay taking the exam until I returned on Monday. His response is my one-liner.
“I cannot allow you to delay taking the test, but you may have a seat here in my office and take the exam now.”
Dr. Rossell for One-Liner Wednesday by Linda G. Hill
I sat and I took the exam. I don’t recall my exact score, but it was somewhere between 80 and 90, thus supporting the solid “B” I earned in the course.
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