{"id":83,"date":"2013-02-02T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2015-12-17T00:03:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T23:03:39","slug":"cheating-scandal-hits-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Cheating Scandal Hits Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harvard University has imposed academic sanctions on dozens of students for cheating in a final exam, a dean said in an email to students.<\/div>\n
“More than half” of 125 students under investigation were asked to leave for a period of time; others face probation.<\/div>\n
An inquiry began when a tutor noticed identical answers to a take-home exam for an undergraduate politics course, reports the BBC.<\/div>\n
The review expanded to include nearly half the 279 students enrolled in the course, the Harvard Crimson said.<\/div>\n
Correspondents say there have been complaints that exam rules for the Introduction to Congress class were unclear, and over the university’s handling of the investigation.<\/div>\n
In an email to members of the university, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael Smith said the cases had now been resolved.<\/div>\n
“Somewhat more than half” of the cases resulted in a request to withdraw, he said.<\/div>\n
Of the remaining cases, about half the students were placed on disciplinary probation and the rest were exonerated.<\/div>\n
Some of those ensnared in the scandal were members of Harvard sports teams.<\/div>\n
Two basketball co-captains have been dropped from the team, while earlier reports in the university newspaper suggested football, baseball and ice hockey players could also have been involved.<\/div>\n
The dean added that an internal committee would put forward recommendations on how to promote honesty within the institution.<\/div>\n
“This is a time for communal reflection and action,” Smith said. “We are responsible for creating the community in which our students study and we all thrive as scholars.”<\/div>\n
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culled from This Day<\/div>\n

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