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I’ve never heard of a university that doesn’t respond to plagiarism with expulsion. Is that a thing?
by escapedmoose 4y ago
I’ve never heard of a university that doesn’t respond to plagiarism with expulsion. Is that a thing?
- noodlesUK 4y agoMy university definitely had expulsion as a punishment for plagiarism but it was rarely used in the first instance, especially on undergrads or in cases of collusion with other students rather than something like essay commissioning. If you were caught plagiarising a major assignment I don’t doubt that you’d be expelled, but a small coursework (especially in first year) would have probably just been zeroed out or you would have failed the module.
- voakbasda 4y agoWhen I was in college, I worked a few terms as a teaching assistant. Cheating was rampant and I never saw any meaningful consequences. Many of the students that I personally caught still ended up passing the class. This was over 20 years ago. I went back to grad school 15 years ago. Same story, only it had only gotten worse. I dropped out, in part due to the perceived total lack of institutional integrity.