Adjusting to the dynamic nature of cheating in the Information Age
Colleges and universities handle violations differently, but faculty and staff across institutions can agree that cheating, plagiarism, and fabrication are wrong.
At Rutgers, faculty and judicial affairs staff are in the process of revising an academic integrity policy that hasn’t been changed since 1980. Practitioners decided to share their findings and perspectives with the wider community.
The Conference on Academic Integrity, an event of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs, hosted faculty and staff from 13 colleges and universities and all three Rutgers campuses Participants came from schools across New Jersey as well as Delaware and Philadelphia. “The majority of the violations we see in judicial affairs are ones of academic integrity,” said Ave Pollak, director of judicial affairs at Rutgers. “We want to try to proactively reduce the number of violations we see.”
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One-of-a-kind Rutgers noise center improves quality of life from Camden to Kansas
Marriages have been destroyed and jobs have been lost – all due to the harms of unregulated noise.
Shooting hoops in a hoop skirt
Sports historian and Camden Associate Dean Nancy Rosoff examines why what women wear while playing sports matters so much.
Recylemania races to the final stretch
Rutgers is on track to notch more championship performances in the recycling competition whose aim is to keep colleges as green as possible
Center for Women’s Global Leadership joins in global campaign for universal human rights
A growing number of activists make the case that human rights will never be a reality for men until women are unafraid to live as they choose.
New undergraduate philosophy journal attracts submissions from nationwide and abroad
The new Rutgers Undergraduate Philosophy Journal is drawing papers from Princeton, Berkeley, and Cambridge.
Rutgers’ Bloustein School initiative battles HIV/AIDS in New Jersey through training
Educators teach their communities about HIV prevention through courses jointly provided by the Bloustein School and the state's Department of Health and Senior Services.
Research reveals how food poisoning and bioterrorism toxins could be tamed
Rutgers scientists have uncovered new information about how the deadly plant toxin – ricin – attacks cells.
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High-profile writers in Camden, a major French history conference, lessons on how to get published, lectures by Paul Sarbanes and other notables, and much more.
Faculty Q&A
Board of Governors Professor of Law Dennis Patterson, who is also a Ph.D. in philosophy, says law professors today must be comfortable with economics, philosophy, and a variety of social science theories. Full StoryFEATURES
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From Irvington to Idaho to Indonesia, Jewish studies branches out
A generous donor and devotee of lifelong learning helped kickstart an online study program that provides quick and simple education to students of all ages on any continent.
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Rutgers–Newark program aims to combat Alzheimer’s disease in black communities
Blacks are twice as likely as whites to develop memory disorders. Researchers and staff are teaming up with community organizations to change behaviorial patterns among African Americans that can lower their risk of dementia. Full Story
