“Rapscallions, Scoundrels and Scallywags (aka College Students)”

by P.D. Lesko and Elizabeth J. Carter In the January/February 1994 issue of Adjunct Advocate, we interviewed Dr. Donald McCabe, then Founding President of the Center for Academic Integrity (CAI). When we interviewed Dr. McCabe, his Center had just 50 member schools. We talked to him about his groundbreaking research into academic dishonesty among college students. At that time, Dr. McCabe told us that 67 percent of the over 6,000 students on 14 campuses who filled out his 1993 survey had reported cheating at least once during college. He also said that “19 percent [of undergraduates] said they cheated on four or more […]