M.B.A. students top the list of cheaters
I guess I'm not surprised by this, but disappointed, yes.
All of which is an excuse to mention the most cut and dried case of cheating I came across in my career. I had assigned a case write up to the class. When they handed in their papers at the end of class, one student secretly pulled another student's paper from the pile, tore the cover page off of it, and stapled his own cover page on to it, intending to pass the paper off as his own. Fortunately, the true author of the paper had also signed his paper on the last page.
Was that evidence enough to get the guy expelled from one of the top Ivy League graduate school's of business? Nope. After an extensive hearing before a faculty-student tribunal, he was given a probation.
What message did that send?
A survey of 5,331 students at 32 graduate schools in the United States and Canada found an "alarming" amount of cheating across disciplines, but more among the nation's future business leaders. Fifty-six percent of graduate business students admitted they had cheated at least once in the last year, compared with 47 percent of non-business students.My guess is they are mirroring the behavior of their predecessors who are now in the top jobs.
All of which is an excuse to mention the most cut and dried case of cheating I came across in my career. I had assigned a case write up to the class. When they handed in their papers at the end of class, one student secretly pulled another student's paper from the pile, tore the cover page off of it, and stapled his own cover page on to it, intending to pass the paper off as his own. Fortunately, the true author of the paper had also signed his paper on the last page.
Was that evidence enough to get the guy expelled from one of the top Ivy League graduate school's of business? Nope. After an extensive hearing before a faculty-student tribunal, he was given a probation.
What message did that send?
posted by walldon | 10:05 AM
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The message it sends to me is a confirmation that the best education in the country is offered by public institutions, which don't give a rat's ass whether you graduate or not. Any Berkeley or UC San Diego degree, for example, (especially in science in the latter case) is worth five times (I picked that figure out of thin air) a degree from Harvard, Stanford or MIT -- because the private universities do all in their power to keep you from flunking out. That would be bad for their graduation rate and their future alumni contributions.
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Dow may be right in the previous comment, but my experience teaching for public institutions doesn't suggest to me that they go after cheaters any more aggressively than the private ones. In fact, in one public university I taught at, the president ordered me to pass one of the failing students in my class because he was a big star on the football team.
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