AP: Dishonesty theme runs beneath range of headlines in higher ed news
There were historic breakthroughs, such as the selection of Harvard’s first woman president, and there was tragedy — the horrific shooting spree at Virginia Tech.
But if the academic year now winding down had a theme, it was a more subtle one: dishonesty.
Consider:
— Nine MBA students at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business faced expulsion, and 25 others lesser punishments, for their roles in an exam-cheating scandal — the most high-profile of several this year.
Nine students were dismissed and another 37 given lesser punishments for cheating on an exam at Indiana University’s dental school. At the U.S. Air Force Academy, 18 were expelled and 13 placed on probation. And Ohio University continued to deal with the fallout of a report that found “rampant and flagrant” plagiarism by graduate students in its mechanical engineering department.
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