Item: News Digest for February 8, 2010
Cheating on the rise at Stanford:
Cheating allegations have more than doubled at Stanford University in the past decade, according to a university report. “Some of it is due to an increase in dishonesty,” says Chris Griffith, chief of the university’s academic judicial panel, “while some is due to an increase in reporting by faculty.” The biggest increase is in the university’s computer science department. Twenty-three per cent of the cheating allegations came from computer science students, who make up six per cent of the university’s students.