Archive for November, 2007

Approaches to Dealing with Plagiarism

I’ve been struggling the last few months with the issue of plagiarism at Central. Every semester, it comes up and it’s difficult for me to come up with a satisfactory answer that fits every situation and every student. I know that the following story isn’t perfectly analogous to what we are doing at Central, but there are some similarities. Faced with the issue of a grad student who plagiarized a term paper, the professor chose an unconventional punishment.

See what you think about it by reading the discussion at World Magazine.

How would you like to see us respond to a situation like that?