(SB) A student, Alice, is caught cheating twice, once with a phone and the second time with a duplicate test booklet, full of unneeded information on unasked test questions, how should a professor deal with it? The student has had many after hours, non-educational conversations about her travels and adventures with the instructor; does this shift the dynamic of the student/teacher relationship?
The professor is on track for tenure; however, other instructors have left the facility as a direct result of failing a student for cheating. How does Kant’s theory apply? Will the professor handle the situation correctly?
(ND)In the article, Alice Cheung: The Case of the Cheating Student, the professor has to make an ethical decision regarding his suspicions about a cheating student. The professor went to several of his colleagues to get advice regarding the dilemma. There was proof that his student was cheating and he struggled in confronting the situation and giving consequences to his student. The professor experienced an ethical dilemma with this cheating problem, and although most of the advice he received was to follow through with his suspicion, taking copious notes about the situation as …show more content…
I do not believe it is. The professor didn’t want to deal with the consequences associated with turning in Alice for cheating to ruin his accolade and the personal connection between them blinded him from seeing the facts and proof. Building a relationship with someone in a position where you have power tends to have more negative outcomes than positive. Since the professor has her grades in his hands this relationship would be beneficial in order for her to pass his class. Alice may have the compulsion to maintain her grades under family pressure, and the professor has good intentions, but his judgment of boundaries was
The professor is on track for tenure; however, other instructors have left the facility as a direct result of failing a student for cheating. How does Kant’s theory apply? Will the professor handle the situation correctly?
(ND)In the article, Alice Cheung: The Case of the Cheating Student, the professor has to make an ethical decision regarding his suspicions about a cheating student. The professor went to several of his colleagues to get advice regarding the dilemma. There was proof that his student was cheating and he struggled in confronting the situation and giving consequences to his student. The professor experienced an ethical dilemma with this cheating problem, and although most of the advice he received was to follow through with his suspicion, taking copious notes about the situation as …show more content…
I do not believe it is. The professor didn’t want to deal with the consequences associated with turning in Alice for cheating to ruin his accolade and the personal connection between them blinded him from seeing the facts and proof. Building a relationship with someone in a position where you have power tends to have more negative outcomes than positive. Since the professor has her grades in his hands this relationship would be beneficial in order for her to pass his class. Alice may have the compulsion to maintain her grades under family pressure, and the professor has good intentions, but his judgment of boundaries was