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Professional ethics begin on the College campus

18.09.2003 USA

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Candace De Russy - Chronicle of Higher Education

The professoriate is a gatekeeper, determining a student's first exposure to ethical standards, traditions. Many observers of contemporary academic culture have documented cases if irresponsible and unethical behavior within the professoriate. Examples include lateness for class, use of vulgarity in scholarly forums, showing favouritism among students, improper use of campus funds, plagiarism, sexual liaisons with students, failure to properly perform administrative duties, and, most basic, unwillingness to uphold the value of truth in teaching and research.
Research-fraud investigation leads to departures from Northern Kentucky University

18.09.2003 USA

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Robin Wilson - Chronicle of Higher Education

Northern Kentucky accused five professors of fabricating data in scholarly papers, duplicating large chunks of their own work in several papers, plagiarizing, and listing as authors a number of professors at the university who did not contribute.
Combating academic fraud: Towards a culture of integrity

This book documents the importance and extent of academic fraud. It identifies major varieties of academic fraud such as cheating in high stakes examinations, plagiarism, credentials fraud, and misconduct in reform policies. Examples of measures to...

Eckstein, Max A.

Paris, UNESCO, 2003
Corruption plagues academe around the world

01.08.2002 Japan, Kenya, Mexico, UK, USA

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- Chronicle of Higher Education

Japan. Kenya. Mexico. United Kingdom. USA: People from the Kenyan Ministry of Education participated in selling fake diplomas. In the USA and Mexico, students buy term papers and admissions essays online. People propose to take tests for others in China.
Fraud and education: the worm in the apple

Dishonesty and chicanery are nothing new to education. What is new, perhaps, are the ways in which these imperfections permeate education credentialing and how they have flourished with the invention of new technologies and changes in consumer...

Noah, Harold J., Eckstein, Max A.

Lanham (Md.), Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
Of academic fraud and the education crisis

The World Wide Web has given students unprecedented access to legitimate and illegitimate education resources. Steinberg gives an oversight of the implications of it on present-day higher education. He thus describes how, in the U.S., internet-based...

Steinberg, Iain

Washington, The Washington Times, 2000