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    • The next time Stanford’s spouts its self-vaunted claim to admitting higher academic athletes than the rest I give you Richard Sherman

      • USA EDUCATION

        Academic dishonesty at Stanford: What compels elite students to cheat?

        Stanford University is the latest in a series of schools to investigate violations of academic honor codes. Why do students, even at the country’s most prestigious institutions, cheat?

        By Rowena Lindsay, Staff Writer MARCH 29, 2015

        Amy Anthony/AP

        Stanford University is the latest in a series of top American universities to admit it has a cheating problem.

        With nearly 16,000 thousand students enrolled at Stanford, a few incidences of cheating and plagiarism are expected each quarter. But in a letter sent Tuesday by University Provost John Etchemendy, the school is investigating “an unusually high number of troubling allegations of academic dishonesty,” during the winter quarter.

        The school is concerned over incidents in a number of courses, particularly one of the school’s largest introductory courses where one in five students are suspected of having cheated. The University is currently in the process of contacting those students, Dr. Etchemendy wrote.

        Stanford is just one of several elite schools that have investigated violations of the respective academic honor codes in the past few years, includingHarvard University, Dartmouth College, University of North Carolina, the Air Force Academy, and Stuyvesant High School.

        So why do students cheat so frequently?

        Studies have shown that today’s college and high school students are cheating at an ever increasing rate, and that high achievers are just as likely to cheat as everyone else.

        Technology makes it easier not only to find information to plagiarize, but also to share work with other students. Additionally, many students do not see anything wrong with sharing their own work or borrowing heavily from the work of others due to the culture of collaboration that has arisen in the millennial generation, Etchemendy noted in his letter.

        Howard Gardner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, told the New York Times that over the 20 years he has studied professional and academic integrity, “the ethical muscles have atrophied,” partially due to cultural pressure to succeed, he says.

        By this standard, students who care more about school and grades, particularly those enrolled in more competitive universities will find it easier to excuse cheating in the name of success. In fact a study completed at Middlebury College showed that “contextual factors, such as students’ perception of peers’ behavior are the most powerful influence” on those who chose to cheat.

        Donald L. McCabe, a professor at the Rutgers University Business School, and a leading researcher on cheating, told the Times hes doesn’t “think there’s any question that students have become more competitive, under more pressure, and, as a result, tend to excuse more from themselves and other students, and that’s abetted by the adults around them.

  1. It’s his head. Let him do as he pleases. I’m more curios about the L. A. Times ad that opened when I came to the comments page. Could Scott be moonlighting?

  2. Sneaking pictures of players, behind their back, then posting them on your blog?….. I gotta say, it’s kinda creepy, Scott

  3. Mr Wolf:
    Would it not be more interesting actually talking to the student athlete and finding something that readers actually are interested in? If you notice in the picture some of the other reporters are actually facing the student and asking questions. You might benefit from this technique.

    • As we all know, this is not Scottie’s “style.” In fact, he probably did not take the photo, but found it somewhere on the Internet or social media. We should be more concerned about Scottie’s recent preoccupation with the player’s hair over on-field activities.

  4. he’ll look cool, on frat row,
    and normally, i wouldn’t care,
    but now i really have to know:
    who paid for all that fancy hair?

    It could be his Mom,
    or some close relation,
    he looks like the bomb,
    but ’tis violation?

    the wolfman has sniffed out the scoop,
    there’s no doubt he’s found a new “gate”
    just keep Missy Conboy in the loop!
    she may need to investigate!

    • Note to Chuckie: I think this faux account has run its course – time to retire it so Dr. Seuss can join Brutus.

  5. Some guys want to play football and some guys want color their hair and show off.

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