Academic dishonesty

school. These ideas are supported by the article “New Honor Codes for a New Generation” because the more efforts a school makes to make students want to improve their own work and do it on their own and make the community itself a greater supporter of academic integrity, less students will make cheating seem like an action that is not detrimental to their success and the success of…

Academic honesty is a cornerstone of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) student-athlete model. It is based upon the view that student-athletes will satisfy and meet the same academic standards as their non-athlete students. Unfortunately, academic fraud continues to be an ongoing problem on a majority of NCAA campuses. Student-athletes are student’s first, athletes second. There should be no special treatment for these students just because they play a particular sport. In…

Maricopa Community Colleges hold their students to a high standard and they have an academic misconduct policy that all students must adhere to. Any student that is guilty of plagiarism can be punished with academic consequences or disciplinary sanctions. The academic consequences consist of a warning, grade adjustment, discretionary assignments, or course failure. The disciplinary sanctions consist of disciplinary probation…

(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…

would rather cheat on an assignment than risk getting a bad grade. Despite making these poor choices, they are not bad students- just made bad decision makers. Ultimately, Casey argues that establishing honor codes and other methods of encouraging academic integrity will ultimately make students more ethical adults. In reality, the a complicated problem like cheating is one that requires a much deeper solution. Before we can discuss possible solutions, we must reveal the roots of this issue. In…

Easy access to information, over lenient colleges and professors, coupled with deteriorating moral standards enable college students to effortlessly cheat on assignments. Most colleges advertise disciplinary rules regarding plagiarizing, and teach students how not to plagiarize, but all this really does is show students what not to do so they can get away with it. There are many applications schools use to automatically check assignments for plagiarism but students have access to these same…

The last reason students have for cheating is something that can be blamed on all of us. The reason? It is what they learned. Students learn from their peers, their parents and the world around them. Take the case of Jason Blair, a New York Times reporter caught plagiarizing. Not only did this this reporter steal around three dozen articles he also falsified testimonies and created false scenes. Another example many are familiar with is Watergate, this scandal showed students that even the…

Plagiarism, as defined by the Merriam Webster digital dictionary, is “the act of using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that person”. Julie J.C.H. Ryan explains in her essay “Student Plagiarism in an Online World” that plagiarizing and cheating is a serious violation in academia and in life. Plagiarism and cheating are considered fraud and those who actually do their own work and challenge themselves are rewarded much more in the long run than those who do not. Cheating…

Academic misconduct is when we are actually giving or handing out a result that is giving disadvantageous to one’s or to any other members ‘of the academic community. Whereas academic community here refers to the teachers, students, the school authorities and the parents as well. Not only that, but academic misconduct also means when we are actually showing or encouraging a person, which are directly involve with academic, considered themselves as the academic community to do something that…

Today, results in higher education is based on the bell curve, where students compete against each another in a rat race to get to the top of the bell curve in order to score good results. The existence of the bell curve means that students can work very hard and still lose to their peers. This competitive education system is detrimental as it discourages students who does worse than their peers. This causes some to turn into unethical ways to achieve good results and also become more selfish…