About 125 Harvard University undergraduates are being investigated for plagiarism or other academic misconduct on a final exam earlier this year, the most widespread cheating scandal known at the school, college officials said today.
All the students, who were in a class of more than 250, will face hearings before Harvard’s Administrative Board, Jay Harris, dean of undergraduate education at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school, said today in an interview.
Harvard professors confirmed the copying after months of reading through the take-home exams beginning in May, Harris said. Students found to have violated school rules may be required to withdraw from school for a year, Harvard said in a statement.
“These allegations, if proven, represent totally unacceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at Harvard depends,” Harvard President Drew Faust said in a statement on the college’s website.
The Administrative Board’s actions are confidential, and Harvard won’t reveal the identity of the students or the name of the course, Harris said.
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Harvard Plagiarism Probe Under Way for About 125 Students - Bloomberg
All the students, who were in a class of more than 250, will face hearings before Harvard’s Administrative Board, Jay Harris, dean of undergraduate education at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school, said today in an interview.
Harvard professors confirmed the copying after months of reading through the take-home exams beginning in May, Harris said. Students found to have violated school rules may be required to withdraw from school for a year, Harvard said in a statement.
“These allegations, if proven, represent totally unacceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at Harvard depends,” Harvard President Drew Faust said in a statement on the college’s website.
The Administrative Board’s actions are confidential, and Harvard won’t reveal the identity of the students or the name of the course, Harris said.
more
Harvard Plagiarism Probe Under Way for About 125 Students - Bloomberg