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Donald McCabe to Speak on Cheating in Academia
March 30 Event to Focus on a Decade of Research in Higher Education
March 10, 2000 - Cheating is on the rise in higher education,
with almost 80 percent of students admitting to some form of
cheating, according to a lengthy study by noted "cheating
expert" Donald L. McCabe, Ph.D., founder and first president
of the Center for Academic Integrity (CAI) and professor of organization
management at Rutgers University. While academic honor codes
have been shown to effectively reduce cheating, chronic cheating
is so prevalent on college campuses that officials from across
the nation are banding together to promote academic integrity
among college students.
To provide a clear perspective on this situation, Dr. McCabe,
will speak at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University
in Brookville at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 30 in the Hillwood
Commons Lecture Hall on "Cheating in Academe: Some Difficult
Choices."
In his lecture, Dr. McCabe will reveal the results of his
decade-long research on college cheating in which he and his
colleagues have surveyed over 12,000 students at more than 40
colleges and universities around the country. Through the CAI
- a consortium of 200 colleges and universities from around the
country who are joined in a united effort to promote academic
integrity among college students - Dr. McCabe has uncovered some
disturbing, provocative and challenging results, among them:
* Almost 80% of the 7,000 undergraduate students surveyed
at 26 small to medium sized campuses reported one or more incidents
of cheating.
* On campuses without honor codes, one in five students reported
more than three incidents of explicit cheating on examinations;
at campuses with honor codes only one in sixteen reported such
levels.
* Cheating is higher among fraternity and sorority members.
* Faculty are reluctant to report students for cheating, and
cheating is higher in those courses where it is well known that
faculty ignore cheating or fail to report it to authorities.
Dr. McCabe has been widely published in business, education
and sociology journals. He has appeared on Good Morning America,
NBC Nightly News and CBS Morning News, and has
been featured in articles in The New York Times, U.S.
News & World Report and People Magazine. In 1994
he developed a new Code of Student Conduct for Rutgers University.
Dr. McCabe has an A.B. in chemistry from Princeton University,
an M.B.A. in marketing from Seton Hall University, and a Ph.D.
in management from New York University. He worked for more than
20 years in the corporate world before joining Rutgers in 1988.
His last corporate position was vice president of sales and marketing
for Devro, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company. He served as
director of Rutgers' executive M.B.A. program from 1994 to 1996
and recently completed a three-year term as associate provost
for campus development on the Newark campus of Rutgers.
For additional information, call Dr. Ellen McGee of the Long
Island Center for Ethics at
(516) 299-2341.
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