Are professors doing enough to combat student cheating? Do administrators back up faculty members when cheating incidents are reported? Is cheating getting worse?
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"As a Brazilian student, I can only talk about my reality..."
"This discussion about cheating interests me. But why assume that only that the students are cheating? When I started..."
"Innocent people are being hurt and there must be something that can be done..."
"I have enjoyed this discussion of cheating. It's nice to know I am not the only one..."
"Please send information about plagiarism policies..."
"I'm a bit concerned that the author,..."
"People need to really get hip. In this day and age it is easy for people to walk into an exam with portable radio transceivers..."
"I must strenuously object to the assumptions presented in this article..."
"I spent approximately an hour searching the archives in two newspapers on-line, free access, and found the following facts..."
"I had the privilege of studying for my Ph.D. degree at Stanford University,..."
"This controversy is somewhat ironic given that we can not even agree that the President shouldn't be fired..."
"I do not get administrative support when students are caught cheating..."
"Since teachers were once students, teachers should realize that teachers and students perceive education differently..."
"Ronnie Hawkins' comments about the 'customer' always being right seem to be on point..."
"Years ago, while at a large midwestern university, I always included in my syllabi both my position on cheating and its consequences..."
"It's not just academe; the WORLD is built on a 'competitive model'..."
"Cheating is the by-product of having a competitive grading system..."
"'Why Professors Don't Do More To Stop Students Who Cheat' (1/19/99) effectively raises an issue that greatly concerns those of us at..."
"The investigation of a case of homework cheating in my Ethics class..."
"While I agree with Professor Christensen's conclusion:..."
"I get so tired of hearing about the students cheating and it being all their fault. I have a daughter that tried to get an investigation into a community college after she saw what we considered wide-spread cheating..."
"I serve as the judicial officer at PCC and handle cases that involve academic dishonesty..."
"I don't know what's more appalling the increase in student cheating, or the increase in the number of students who seem honestly not to understand what cheating is..."
"An environment in which cheating is ignored or tolerated breeds more and more cheating;..."
"Please see Bruce Payne, et al., 'Informal Responses to Academic Dishonesty,' Committee Report, The Center for Academic Integrity,..."
"Initially, one may react cynically to Dr. Schwartz's response, "Can't we agree that cheating is wrong..."
"Recently, I had a student plagiarize not once but twice in my music theory seminar..."
"The issue for professors concerned about cheating is to document, document, and document..."
"The increasing casualness with which students seem to be cheating and committing plagiarism is, in my opinion, just another symptom of the paradigm shift from..."
"'I have neither given nor received nor will I tolerate others' use of unauthorized aid.' More than 15 years after graduating from Valparaiso University, I can still recite..."
"This is one of those areas in the academy that no one wants to talk about and is often rewarded for not addressing actively. Face it, academic dishonesty is..."
"During my tenure (1994-96) as the Assistant Director for Judicial Affairs/Academic Integrity at the University of Maryland-College Park I dealt with many..."
"I have taught several courses in education foundations as a teaching assistant. Recently, one of my students confided that she..."
"I believe lying, stealing, and cheating on academic work is..."
"At Cincinnati Bible College we follow a code of Academic Integrity. As a Christian college we believe..."
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