#harvard cheating

[theatlantic]

Who Cheats -- and Why

The take-home final exam for Harvard University’s 2012 Introduction to Congress course was open-book, open-note, and open-Internet. The only source students weren’t allowed to consult was other people.

But consult they did, and within a few months the university was investigating nearly half the class for plagiarizing or improperly collaborating. Other cheating scandals, at the Air Force Academy and New York City’s Stuyvesant High School, prompt the question: What kind of person tends to cheat?

Read more. [Image: Sam Island]

[shortformblog]

Creeper incident of the day: Harvard spied on its deans

16 Harvard deans had their email accounts accessed by administrators last fall in an effort to figure out who was leaking information regarding a mass-cheating incident to the media. The investigation did in fact pinpoint a dean who was leaking such information, but not intentionally. The dean in question sent an e-mail to a Harvard student they were helping to advise, but that confidential email ended up making its way to the media as a result. Is it us, or does the investigation seem worse than the crime? And who leaked the news about the leak, anyway? source