With academic dishonesty on the rise, this book explains why students cheat, how to foster integrity, and why it matters. Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders, and the college years are a critical period for their development of ethical standards. Cheating in College explores how and why students cheat and what policies, practices, and participation may be useful in promoting academic integrity and reducing cheating. The authors investigate trends over time, including internet-based cheating. They consider personal and situational explanations, such as the culture of groups in which dishonesty is more common (such as business majors) and social settings that support cheating (such as fraternities and sororities). They also focus on how faculty and administrators are increasing their efforts to promote academic honesty among students. Orientation and training sessions, information on college and university websites, student handbooks that describe codes of conduct, honor codes, and course syllabi all define cheating and establish the consequences. Based on the authors’ multiyear, multisite surveys, Cheating in College quantifies and analyzes student cheating to demonstrate why academic integrity is important and to describe the cultural efforts that are effective in restoring it.
For undergraduate/graduate level courses in Technology and Society, Ethics and Technology, Sociological and Technological Issues, Technology in a Social World, Social Issues in Technology, Sociological, Cultural and Technological Concerns. This anthology of scholarly and popular articles explores the positive, negative, ethical, and unethical issues faced by society as technology changes the world that we live in on a personal, national, and international level. Unique in its depth, breadth, and variety of opinions and writings, it examines specific examples from the past and present (and hypothesized ones for the future), showing the complexity that makes "solutions" not so simple. A variety of interactive activities encourages students to think critically, analytically, and creatively, and challenges them to develop new ideas and to map out solutions to today's technological and sociological problems.
Each updated edition of this detailed resource identifies nearly 35,000 live, print and electronic sources of information listed under more than 1,100 alphabetically arranged subjects -- industries and business concepts and practices. Edited by business information expert James Woy.
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