Overvaluing where kids go to college encourages them to ditch their values to get in. We are teaching students that success is determined by where you go college, not how you live your life.
BOSTON -- Harvard University has been stripped of four quiz tournament titles after organizers found a student improperly accessed a competition websi...
The question posed today is: Did Harvard University, whose position on the question of privacy seems ambiguous, make the right decision to secretly search the email accounts of 16 resident deans without first informing them?
Harvard students and faculty should make clear their grave concerns over the university's direction. It seems like Harvard's administration needs a reminder that student and faculty rights must take precedence over public relations.
These sentiments are misguided. While the Harvard administration did not fulfill their obligation to inform the Resident Deans of the investigation as it was happening, the university was fully justified in conducting their email search.
This story is presented in partnership with The Harvard Crimson. Update: Harvard University apologized for a subject-line search of administrators'...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard University administrators on Monday offered an explanation for secretly searching resident dean emails last fall for the s...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University administrators secretly searched the emails of 16 deans last fall, looking for a leak to reporters about ...
Jon Stewart mocked Harvard University and its 125 students who cheated off one another in an open book, take-home "open Internet" test assigned last s...
Should evaluation of learning take place in a more Wikipedia kind of manner than a take-home exam where the learner must be a solo performer?
BOSTON — Harvard University said Friday it issued academic sanctions against approximately 60 students who were forced to withdraw from school f...
I wonder how often our children interpret our effort to encourage them as an implicit instruction to do "whatever it takes" to rise to the top. While we are thinking, "Spend more time studying," they may be hearing, "If cheating is what it takes, then so be it."
Perhaps I am delusional, but I seem to recall a time when everyone agreed that cheating was wrong. Today, cheating seems to have evolved into an insidious disease infecting our society.
Indiana University has a new way of ensuring that students at its Kelley School of Business aren't cutting any corners: The school has opted to instal...
Intelligent students recognize that there's a paradigm shift going on with regard to knowledge. In the past, knowledge needed to be stored inside the skull. Now nearly all existing knowledge can be found, in one form or another, in your pocket.
Is there more that we as parents can do to find real solutions to cheating? What actions can parents take to affect real change so that cheating doesn't become an indelible part of our educational system?
Today's popular culture shows a world in which young protagonists may still yearn for home and mentorship, but are ultimately left on their own without guidance or safety.
Politicians do it. Journalists do it. Even Harvard students do it. Dissembling, stonewalling and outright lies all pass for political discourse these days. The culture of deceit appears to be not only pervasive, but quite acceptable as a way of doing business.
Although the Obama campaign engages in expedient behavior, the chutzpah of Romney-Ryan ticket has redefined the culture of expediency in America.
My friends who have outworked the majority of their peers in Cambridge to get where they are today. My friends who deserve to be at the best university in the world. Unfortunately, these same friends of mine are being thrown under the bus by the media.
A cheap and easy response to the "cheating scandal" would be for Harvard to protect its faculty by reserving blame for its students. We can hope that an open, honest, candid conversation about all this will happen at Harvard -- that would require real institutional courage.
BOSTON -- Harvard President Drew Faust said Thursday that athletes should not be singled out for blame in what is believed to be the largest cheating ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The ivy crawling up the red brick columns of Harvard's Murr Center has begun to wither and brown as fall approaches, and with...
The incidence of cheating is lowest when students or citizens perceive that they are members of an interdependent community, but that's not, sadly, today's America.
You have probably heard that more than 100 Harvard students have been accused of unauthorized collaboration. As someone who has studied college cheating, I find this case provocative. Here are some of the things I wish to say about it.
