Visiting speaker offers overview of research on academic cheating

McCabe

"An Overview of Research on Academic Integrity" is the topic of the third annual Lecture for Graduate Students Who Teach, today at 1:30 p.m. in Uris Hall Auditorium. The featured speaker is Don McCabe, Rutgers University professor and founder of the Center for Academic Integrity.

The lecture, free and open to the Cornell community, will be followed by a Cornell faculty panel, which adjourns at 4 p.m.

Sample research questions can be viewed at: http://integrity.rutgers.edu/rutgersta.asp.

McCabe is a professor of organization management at Rutgers. Over the past 12 years, he has done extensive research on college cheating and has now surveyed more than 50,000 students at more than 100 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. He also has conducted a nationwide survey of high school students in the United States. His work has been published widely in business, education and sociology journals and he is founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity, a consortium of over 300 colleges and universities who are joined in a united effort to promote academic integrity among college and university students.

The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Learning and Teaching, Student and Academic Services, and the university's schools and colleges.

For more information, contact Virleen Carlson at vmc3@cornell.edu.