January 22, 1999
Why Professors Don't Do More to Stop Students Who Cheat
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Some who have tried say that administrators, fearful of lawsuits, don't back them up A few years ago, a professor at a Southern university suspected a student of plagiarism. What did the professor do? Absolutely nothing. The messy case didn't seem worth the anxiety or aggravation, so he graded the assignment as usual and passed the student on. |
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