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Originally Posted by Jersey 2.0
How often does plagiarism/cheating happen? And does that mean the students involved automatically get a failing grade or does the professor give them a chance to redeem themselves? (Not saying they do not deserve a failing grade for the paper-just curious of the process) Im really surprised that with all the money it costs to go to school that these students who are essentailly adults would jeopardize their GPA.
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I sit on my school’s committee for judging cases of academic dishonesty and penalties for those guilty (a special notation on their transcript, suspension, expulsion), and they are getting more and more common. Those are only the ones faculty report, though—many faculty simply assign their own penalty like an F on the assignment or the course, and instead of asking my committee for an extra penalty they may just ask the dean to add the student’s name to the school’s database of cheaters and provide documentation.
Cheating is seen as worth the risk because of the pressure to get a college degree and the pressure to have a high GPA. Odds of getting caught depend on the professor’s vigilance and/or the willingness of fellow students to complain to the professor.
ETA: and feralkittymom is right, a lot of the students we see are Chinese, or at my school Arabic too. The embassy that wrote me on behalf of a cheater represented an Arab country.