{"id":39629,"date":"2022-01-06T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=39629"},"modified":"2022-01-06T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:52:15","slug":"50-bucks-later-professor-deals-with-worldwide-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/50-bucks-later-professor-deals-with-worldwide-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"50 bucks later: Professor deals with worldwide attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39631\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"1200\" data-attachment-id=\"39631\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/50-bucks-later-professor-deals-with-worldwide-attention\/kenyon-wilson-21\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1008,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster\/University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Kenyon Wilson, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022 in the Roland Hays theatre in the Fine Arts Center&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1641311517&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;52&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Kenyon Wilson-21-&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kenyon Wilson-21-\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Kenyon Wilson, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022 in the Roland Hays theatre in the Fine Arts Center&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06-860x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-39631\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06-860x1024.jpg 860w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06-768x914.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06-580x690.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06-610x726.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06-168x200.jpg 168w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/01\/Kenyon-Wilson-22-06-336x400.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNN, The New York Times, NPR, the CBS Morning Show and radio shows in Canada and Australia have done stories on Kenyon Wilson&#8217;s $50 student challenge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In case you missed it over winter break, Kenyon Wilson went viral.<\/p>\n<p>It all started when Wilson, associate head of the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, put a lighthearted post on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>To recap, \u201cMy semester-long experiment has come to an end,\u201d he posted on Dec. 8, the day after finals were over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the start of the term, I placed $50 in one of our lockers and included the locker number and combination in my syllabus for a class with over 70 enrolled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to see if the 50 bucks would be claimed because a student had read the syllabus thoroughly.<\/p>\n<p>Not one did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What academic shenanigans should I try next?\u201d Wilson asked on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>You might have missed the post, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/18\/us\/tennessee-professor-syllabus-money-trnd\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/18\/us\/professor-syllabus-money.html\">The New York Times<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/12\/20\/1065723014\/tennessee-professor-hid-a-cash-prize-on-campus-the-clue-was-in-the-syllabus\">NPR<\/a> didn\u2019t. Neither did the CBS Morning Show, radio shows in Canada and Australia and a host of other media entities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, it was just insane,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cI don\u2019t recommend going viral if you can avoid it, but it definitely was an interesting thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story transitioned from, \u2018Hey, look what I did,\u2019 to \u2018Wow, look what the world did in reaction to it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson waited until the end of fall semester to see who took home the cash prize. After opening the locker, seeing the $50 bill and talking it over with a few friends, he decided to pen a 52-word Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I went to open the locker, I thought I\u2019d be writing a congratulatory post,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly debated whether to post anything because I didn\u2019t want to paint my students in a negative light. I mean, they\u2019re great kids, and they\u2019ve all been wonderful sports about this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe syllabus is a pretty dry document, and I just thought, \u2018Let me reward somebody for being the first to read it.\u2019 And admittedly, this course was one that the students don\u2019t have to read the syllabus because it\u2019s a repeating course. Some students have taken the course now for eight semesters. Maybe that\u2019s why I got away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s post received a few shares from friends on Dec. 8. The next day, there were around 300 shares, he said, \u201cand I started getting people that I\u2019ve never heard of sharing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the weekend, in the midst of conducting the Chattanooga Brass Ensemble through three UTC commencement ceremonies, Wilson found himself balancing the national anthem and the world of social media. The post had gone viral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m at graduation and I have professors coming up to me going, \u2018Oh, I love this,\u2019 and I have former students playing in the Brass Ensemble thinking about how funny this was,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe post had now received over 1,000 shares, and it just had gone insane. Somebody pulled it over to Twitter and that got retweeted 59,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I got a call from Canadian Public Radio, which was the first sense that it had gotten a little out of control. Then it was CNN, the New York Times and a lot of small-market stations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the different media entities reached out to him, they asked for students to talk to about what had now become a source of humor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI obviously checked with the students because I needed their permission, but I made sure to ask a different student for each interview,\u201d he said. \u201cHopefully, they got something out of it, a little bit of fame for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wilson acknowledged that the unexpected dose of fame has its perks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a composer,\u201d he said with a laugh, \u201cand I\u2019d love to be famous because someone loves my music. This is not exactly where I expected to hang my internet hat on, but we don\u2019t pick and choose these, do we?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With classes for the spring semester beginning on Monday, does Wilson have an encore performance in store? In other words, what &#8220;academic shenanigans&#8221; should he try next?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have debated with myself about it. I certainly can\u2019t get away with something, or at least I wouldn\u2019t have the same result, which is fine,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s still a work in progress, but not without a lot of suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the students were such good sports about it, I\u2019d love to find a way to give them something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyon Wilson&#8217;s $50 challenge to students becomes international news. <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2022\/01\/50-bucks-later-professor-deals-with-worldwide-attention\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1493,"featured_media":39630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7712,61,12777],"tags":[70311],"class_list":{"0":"post-39629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","8":"category-faculty-and-staff","9":"category-music-college-of-arts-sciences","10":"tag-dr-kenyon-wilson","11":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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