We are a growing group of UC alumni who are appalled at our alma mater's decision to award an honorary degree to proven academic fraudster Phillip R. Cox of Cox Financial Corporation. According to the official announcement by UC:
The honorary degree recognizes individuals who have attained extraordinary distinction and who exemplify the highest purposes and ideals of the university (emphasis ours).We, the Alumni of the University of Cincinnati, believe the school's decision to honor an academic fraud such as Mr. Cox is both an insult and injury to all of us.
The school has a duty to its alumni to uphold the standards it proclaims. Failure to do so devalues the institution and degrades all UC alumni.
If the school decides to proceed in perpetrating this travesty upon it's alumni, we intend to pursue damages against the Board of Trustees, which, ironically at one time, included Mr. Cox himself.
More to come.
Who made the decision to award this degree in the 1st place? These are the real frauds here...are they still associated with the University?
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