Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Thought at Amherst College, offers this commentary in The Conversation. He describes both his own conversations with students and a series of academic studies indicating that cheating in high school and college is far more widespread than we in the academy care to contemplate or admit. He makes a compelling case that once bad cheating habits have emerged, only sustained effort from universities has any chance of stemming the tide. Food for thought for us all.



