> it is at least theoretically treated much more seriously. My impression from reading HN, where the topic came up numerous times over the years, was that that

> it is at least theoretically treated much more seriously. My impression from reading HN, where the topic came up numerous times over the years, was that that is not so. See the link I presented as example, I saw a lot such stories, right here in the discussions, but also in some articles. Not just the US, I also remember similar anecdotes about management preventing punishment from Canada even when a professor initially tried to do something. If it is not representative I apologize, I go by what I read mostly here, and it was a lot over the years. There certainly seems to be an official stance against cheating, e.g. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20160921125627336 https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=201609211... It's just that I saw so many stories from or about educators who tried and it went like in that link I included, especially when many students were caught. "Why Professors Don’t Do More to Stop Students Who Cheat" - https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-professors-dont-do-more-to-stop-students-who-cheat-25673/ https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-professors-dont-do-mor... > Some who have tried say that administrators, fearful of lawsuits, don’t back them up > “In the majority of cases of trivial cheating, I think most professors turn a blind eye,” says Donald L. McCabe, the associate provost for campus development at Rutgers University at Newark, who has studied the issue. “The number who do nothing is very small, but the number who do very little is very large.”