Studies have also shown that each individual differs in their reason for cheating, such as gender, grade point average, competitive achievement and self esteem. Understanding and accepting academic integrity policies is the first step in preventing academic dishonesty within a university. Student athletes must understand these policies and how they can differ significantly in their content and in the manner they are communicated. For example, a student who may have taken a quiz before another student should not discuss the questions with a fellow student who has not taken the quiz. Many students lack the understanding of what cheating may be. This lack of understanding and communication from administration may lead students to cheat on …show more content…
Some cases include coaches, tutors or classmates giving student athletes answers to quiz’s, writing their essays and taking online courses for them. David Goldfield a professor of history at the University of North Carolina states, “When there’s pressure applied you’re going to get a reaction, and the reaction we’re seeing is academic fraud cases” (Powers 2007). It has become difficult to track down all academic dishonesty cases because many of them involve a larger scale of authority involved in some cases. They can involve wrongdoing by people in all parts of the institution and often are not reported. If there is an increase of reports in the last couple years, it is because people are reporting the infractions now. Simply adding more tutors and graduate students does not get at the problem because these lower level employees feel the pressure to make a coach happy and keep an athlete