Should Students Be Allowed to Get Away with Plagiarism?
Editor’s Note: Mr. Warshauer participated in a Faculty Senate Committee focused on rewriting Central Connecticut State University’s Academic Misconduct Code. His work on this subject prompted him to launch a National Survey on Faculty perceptions of Academic Misconduct/Plagiarism. To participate in the survey, please link to http://www.history.ccsu.edu/Form/Plagiarsm_Questionnaire.htm. After having spent some two years on a committee dedicated to rewriting Central Connecticut State University’s Academic Misconduct Policy, never for a moment did I anticipate that one of my students would be a test case for the new policy. Even more disheartening, the policy, in my opinion, was undermined by the Judicial Hearing Panel that ruled on the case. The members of the panel and I were simply not on the same page when it came to identifying and punishing Academic Misconduct. Moreover, I soon came to find that many members of the very committee upon which I had worked came to markedly different co
