The Associated Press published an article this afternoon whose thesis is that, in the academic year now ending, “dishonesty” was a pervasive theme in higher-education headlines.
The article, now appearing on dozens of newspapers’ Web sites across the United States, and likely to show up in many of their print editions tomorrow, cites a cheating scandal at a business school, the sudden resignation of an admissions dean who lied about her credentials, and of course the continuing investigation of the college-lender scandal. Chronicle readers, is this a fair characterization of higher education in 2006-7? —Andrew Mytelka
