Almost 25 percent of students admitted to serious cheating, and 50 percent admitted to cheating one or more times on written assignments. On most campuses, 70 percent of students admitted to cheating. The survey polled almost 50,000 undergraduates from more than 60 campuses. The Center for Academic Integrity completed a survey in 2002 that measured academic integrity. The center is affiliated with the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and “provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students, faculty, teachers and administrators.” Levels of cheating and plagiarism remain high, said Don McCabe, founder of the Center for Academic Integrity. Officials at the University of California-Berkeley reported that cheating on campus increased an estimated 744 percent between 19.
“You don’t really learn, and the stuff I’m studying now, I really need to know,” he said. Matt Tucker, 21, a biochemistry major, said he cheated once in high school, but he would not cheat now. The average is seven out of 10 students cheat, one of which cheats all the time. Twelve percent of students cheated regularly. “It’s so much easier for students to cheat now having the Internet,” she said.Īccording to a 1991 Rutgers University study, 66 percent of 16,000 students from 31 U.S. Students who cheat are lazy, said English-history major Margaret Butterfield. You cheat in high school, you cheat in college, you cheat in life,” she said.
“Plagiarism is when you take another person’s work and call it your own,” Le said. The meaning of plagiarism is clear to CSUF biochemistry major, Phung Le, 19. The Internet enables a plagiarizer to find sources in seconds and quickly compose a term paper or other copy. Some may not believe that cheating is stealing, but others argue that committing plagiarism is no different.Īccording to, plagiarism has never been easier. – For California State University-Fullerton students, most things available online – like music – are free for the taking.
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