The number of Yale students charged with cheating nearly doubled in the last academic year, according to the 2009-’10 Yale College Executive Committee Report.
Of the 80 cases the committee heard, 72 involved plagiarism or cheating, and the rest involved offenses related to alcohol, defiance of authority, unruly behavior and forgery. The number of cheating and plagiarism cases has increased sharply since the 2005-’06 academic year, when the Committee received only 18 cases.
“It’s hard to tell why we have the jump, whether more students are cheating or professors are being meticulous,” Committee Chair Margaret Clark said.
Yale College Dean Mary Miller said she thinks the increase suggests professors are more effectively detecting violations.
Director of the Writing Center Alfred Guy said a new policy instituted in 2007 — which requires professors to explain how they will address issues of academic integrity when they submit a proposal to start a new course or make significant changes to an existing one — might have made professors more likely to hold students accountable for academic dishonesty.
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