Professional baseball, the nation’s cherished pastime, is- right now, today- in the midst of an integrity crisis. For those of us who work to promote integrity in our classrooms and institutions, the parallels are unmistakable. We can learn a lot by wa …
Integrity Matters
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In the News: When the Parent Facilitates Contract Cheating
Read all about it! California parent charged with “one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud” because she paid a firm $9,000 to take “an individual online class” for her son. I’ve previously written about the actions that Australia, England, New Zea …
In the News: The Teachability of Ethics
A new article by Kowaleski, Sutherland, and Vetter (2019) examines the teachability of ethics in business. Looking at data from financial analysts, the authors concluded that investment advisers passing the licensing exam–Series 66–with “more rules a …
News you can use: Recent Research, Policy, and Practice
The week’s blog post features brief summaries of selected news items, publications, and programming on academic integrity over the last month. Each item was selected for its timeliness and relevance to the goals of the blog. I encourage you to explore …
Are You Addressing the Problem?
The cheating dilemma. To Faculty, reporting a case of academic dishonesty may seem like an ineffective time sink, but students see this as something to exploit. Some instructors believe that they have created a course where students are unable to cheat …
In the News: The Detriment of Fake Degrees to Society
In this week’s blog post, I want to highlight a worthy opinion published in the Gulf News by Dr. Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi. Dr. Al-Suwaidi is a Nobel Prize nominated intellectual leader based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) whose most recent opinion pi …
