Category:

In Quest of an Antidote for Academic Corruption

1/4/2013

[Originally published in China Daily, November 9, 2012]

If the goal of scholarship is to get published, rather than to contribute in a meaningful and substantial way to the growth of knowledge, then any method is acceptable. Academic life is not usually so lucrative that people enter it to get wealthy. Usually people have some drive to know and learn.

Until this has been accomplished in China through a combination of structural and cultural changes, the fight against misconduct and corruption will remain with us.

0 Comments

The School Game

9/30/2012

0 Comments

We can keep calling for morality, but just as arguments to share the ball don’t make any sense in football, the stakes of the education game compel students and faculty and administrators to compete win in the perceived zero-sum game.

Also published in Huffington Post

0 Comments

Ten Reactions to Hearing that 125 Harvard Students May Have Cheated on a Take-Home Exam

9/1/2012

2 Comments

You have probably heard that a teaching assistant grading final exams in a large Harvard class noticed suspicious similarities among the responses. That assistant notified authorities, and now a full-fledged investigation is underway—scrutinized by public attention. As someone who has studied college cheating and plagiarism, I find this case, like so many before and yet to come, provocative. Here are some of the things I wish to say about it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-d-blum/harvard-cheating_b_1877921.html

2 Comments

In Quest of an Antidote for Academic Corruption

The School Game

Ten Reactions to Hearing that 125 Harvard Students May Have Cheated on a Take-Home Exam

Susan D. Blum

Archives

Categories