Dishonesty

Being caught with academic dishonesty, or cheating, reflects poorly not only on the individual, but also on the team and the university the student is representing. Student athletes are in the public eye much more than the average student is. Student athletes are being watched by the fans, the coaching staff, the compliance office, the professors, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), etc. If a student athlete chooses to participate in academic dishonesty, not only does he or she…

matters. People cheat, and some more often than others. When asked about why people cheat, the most common answer is, “It’s easy and the class is hard.” It seems that academic dishonesty is more common among the Millennials due to various ways of cheating, like through technology. An article called, Addressing Academic Dishonesty in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology by Berlin Fang, they spoke about an Oklahoma Christian University where all the students have an electronic device provided to them…

One predictor of academic dishonesty that has been researched is the fraud triangle model (Macgregor & Stuebs, 2012). The fraud triangle includes three characteristics needed for cheating to occur which are incentive, opportunity, and rationalization. In the study, the researchers examined the relationship between the fraud triangle model and how this could lead to cheating behaviors. The first proposed component is an incentive. If an incentive is present, students are more likely to want to…

athletes will resort to finding an easier way to do so. Examples of academic dishonesty, are the dissemination of quiz answers to student athletes who are…

In Stephanie Ericson’s “The Ways We Lie,” Ericson discusses a contemporary issue of how we as humans justify lying to big institutions for our self-benefit. An ever-growing branch of this form of lying includes academic dishonesty. In today’s society, schools praise GPA and grades rather than student progress, prompting students to feel the external pressure of meeting these expectations. Rather than appraising students based on growth, schools admire the top students, unknowingly encouraging…

In the world today it seems to be almost common knowledge that extracurricular activities help rather than hinder the growth and development of adolescents as they mature into adulthood. Being involved in sports, clubs, and having part-time jobs can help people to become better at things like time management and has been proven to be a contributing factor to higher grades in school and being better leaders in society. However, many do not consider that extracurricular activities and being…

Dishonesty in Clinical Nursing Educational Environments The increasing need for quality health care providers is a looming issue for the United States. Much of the nursing population is aging and qualified nurses are not replacing experienced nurses at many institutions around the country. Snavely (2016) estimates that by 2022 the country will require 1.05 million nurses to fill the deficit and adequately care for the aging population. As generations continue to live longer, but with…

Fraud and dishonesty are both issues that are inevitably faced in jobs and workplaces every day all throughout the world. These two issues are not to be taken lightly and should be taken care of immediately when there are any occurrences. Fraud and dishonesty can be present in any workplace no matter what the field. When it comes to the field of Community Health and Public Health, there are many instances in which fraud and dishonesty can play a role within the workplace. One of the biggest…

encouraged dishonesty, including drinking in backlash against prohibition laws. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which takes place in this era, characters constantly lie to or outright deceive each other. For instance, the narrator, Nick Carraway, extols his own honesty, but as his audience, we see how he has repeatedly withheld information from his peers in important scenarios. Jay Gatsby, the man Nick follows in the story, much more blatantly…

deployment. Companies send weekly reports on the maintenance status of their tanks to their battalion, and this data is passed on to the highest levels of army command. The army aims for ninety percent readiness in case of war. The outgoing officer's dishonesty was inconsistent with my (and his) military training; officers trained at the United States Military Academy take an oath from the first day of matriculation to maintain a strict standard of integrity. The cadet creed states that, "a…