Duke's Mbas Cheating Scandal

Plagiarism is an increasing large issue on college campuses, a habit to most of the student. According to the article ‘’The Plagiarism Plague’’, the findings on the survey made to 50,000 students on more than 60 campuses was that 70 percent of the students admitted that they cheated. Half of the students surveyed admitted that one or more times made serious cheating on writing assignments, with 77 percent of the students surveyed said that cheating was not a serious issue.

Plagiarism is a form of cheating, and a serious violation of the honor code and academic honesty in educational institutions. According to dictionary.com, plagiarism is: a piece of writing or other work reflecting such unauthorized use or imitation [1]. In simplified terms, plagiarism is taking and using some else’s work without giving credit to the righteous owner, for using their information. This work includes but is not limited to text, graphs, pictures, statistics, or other types of information that is not considered “common knowledge.” It is also considered as stealing, thus it is not tolerated anywhere in the world, and penalties are strictly

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Academic honesty, expected of every student, is essential to the process of education and to upholding high ethical standards. Cheating, including plagiarism, inappropriate use of technology, or any other kind of unethical or dishonest behavior, may subject the student to severe academic penalties, including dismissal.All work submitted for evaluation in a course, including tests, term papers, and computer programs, must represent only the work of the student unless indicated otherwise. This includes homework, essays, theses, and creative projects.Material taken from the work of others must be acknowledged. Materials submitted to fulfill requirements in one course may not be submitted in another course without prior approval of the instructor.

Chace askes how does cheating become accepted? Part of the answer is the type of wrong it is. “When one compares it to a violation of copyright which is punishable in a court of law, cheating in college is only morally and ethically wrong.” (Chace, W.M., 25) Even Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. doctoral thesis at Boston University was full of words from other authors and copied down section upon section in great abundance. (Chace, W.M., 25)

students seem to turn to plagiarism as an answer to getting good grades or to finish an assignment quickly. A high schooler sometimes sees no other choice other than to cheat or copy off of another person because of either the importance of education to them, the student had a ton of other homework, or a sporting event took place the night before the due date. Either way, high schoolers often overlook the consequences of their actions since they believe the teacher will not know or find out. After evaluating the usage of plagiarism in schools, the adults must keep a closer watch on their students work and enforce the punishments because of how commonly used copying has become.

A policy created by school institutions is the honor-code, which prevents students from plagiarizing and cheating off one another. Among scholars, there’s a debate on whether this policy is still in appropriate use today. Acknowledging the issue is Susan Greenberg, a journalism instructor and writer for The Washington Post, and Lynn Morton, an English professor at Queens University of Charlotte. Through examination of the two authors, both provide insightful background about honor-code practices on college campuses. However, their evidence presents opposing points-of-view on the subject.

In Source F, McCabe and Pavela report of “an ongoing dialogue that takes place among students on campuses with strong honor code traditions, and occasionally between students and relevant faculty and administrators, which seeks to define where, from a student perspective, ‘trivial’ cheating becomes serious.” Since students can determine more definitively what is right, what is wrong, and what is in the middle, unfair practices occur less frequently. McCabe and Pavela “see significantly less self-reported cheating on campuses with honor codes compared to those without such codes.” The pair of researchers have also confirmed that dialogue and encouraged student involvement are more likely to occur in schools where an honor code is in place. The conclusive and well-defined nature in honor codes allows for meaningful talks on school legislation and supports student involvement in these

Universities have measures to prevent and catch students who have plagiarised their essays, however on a rare occasions plagiarism is unfortunately undetected. In such a circumstances, the student receives a high mark and passes the subject without gaining the knowledge in that field. According to Jude Carroll there are no solutions to fully prevent plagiarism, however with the plagiarism on the rise the universities are implementing methods to minimise it. “We will never prevent students from colluding, plagiarising and breaking the rules but we can deter them by putting in place a range of activities and procedures, each on its own unable to make much difference, but in combination, able to change the way everyone deals with

More institutions of higher education are adding law and ethics curriculum to the lists of required courses. After the legal and ethical scandals that occurred at companies such as Enron and accounting firms such as Arthur Andersen, as well as the Ponzi schemes of Bernie Madoff, this seems like a natural course of action for most colleges and universities. Because society uses law and ethics to mold business, it makes sense to teach these in institutions of higher learning, but should these classes also be taught in high school when young adults are getting their feet wet in the world of business? It is important to study law and ethics in an MBA program because a comprehensive set of laws is not enough, ethical relativism and religion lessen the public’s ability to define right and wrong, and elementary schools only teach obedience to laws and rules.

Academic dishonesty is a current problem in our society. It occurs at each level of education. It summarizes all types of cheating in education system all over the world. Students, faculty, and staff of HBU are responsible to keep the Academic Integrity Policy. Its goal is to develop a moral attitude and to grow in Christian ideals. We should do all individual work alone, use our own knowledge when we do homework, follow all university rules. According to HBU Academic Integrity Policy, these acts of behavior are considered as a cheating: submitting the work or record of someone else as his own, copying another’s quiz, exam answers, or homework, cooperating with another student during an assessment, when a student uses, buys, sells, or otherwise shares for example parts of the exam. Students are breaking an academic integrity because they want to achieve higher scores without much effort. Unfortunately, breaking these rules may cause a lot of unpleasant consequences.

In the last decade, ethics in corporate America has become highly publicized following the discovery of unethical and fraudulent business practices in major corporations. Practices at Tyco, Enron, Arthur Anderson, and WorldCom, among others, have made these corporate names synonymous with corporate fraud. The unethical behavior of top executives such as Bernard “Bernie” Madoff and Martha Stewart for example, have resulted in critical issues for companies and wide reaching job loss.

According to our readings, "the type of plagiarism deliberate or unintentional has an impact upon the perception of the offence for both faculty and students" (Academic Integrity 2011). This is an important distinction to some people, although the act of plagiarism remains unacceptable no matter why it is done.

Unethical behavior is frequently a topic of controversy and discussion within our society. More often than not, this reaction is in response to a recent event which has brought to light the actions of others which we deem as morally wrong or unethical. These situations can range from a business paying their employees unfairly based upon gender, or a teacher helping their students cheat in an effort to pass an exam. Despite the vast majority of society knowing actions such as these are wrong they continue to surprise us and occur at a high frequency. Ethical dilemmas have been and will continue to be a source of much debate. In this particular scenario, at first glance there appears to be numerous examples of unethical behavior by the

Maintaining high ethical standards is made explicit, or at least implicit, in the aims and objectives of most institutions. But HEIs still need to ensure that these aims are put into practice in the day to day running of the institution. Ethical issues arise in a wide range of situations, including those relating to how an institution treats it employees, students and other groups. The relationships between the organization and its funders and commercial partners provide scope for conflicts of interest and other ethical dilemmas. Marketing practices and admissions procedures may raise questions about honesty and fairness, while upholding academic freedom can have both legal and ethical consequences. Ethical issues range from plagiarism to public interest disclosure and from race equality to confidentiality of information.