According to the UK's Guardian, there's never been as much fakery in academia as has emerged currently. No one with even a casual perspective on higher education and research is surprised at this. The risk/reward factor is simply too skewed in favor of the fakes.
While there's the perpetual complaint about the injustice of the publish or perish situation in academia, at bottom it's really the same as everything else in Yankee land, MONEY. The rewards for plagiarism and other academic fraud simply outweigh the possible punishments.
It's not just fraud and fakery either. University administrators and professors have become figures in the social sphere surrounding their student body and campus. The furor seems to have died down or been suppressed by other developments but the Oberlin College fiasco of 2016-2022, resulting in the college ultimately paying Gibson's Bakery $36 million in damages, is a sad case in point.
dalekang AP
Meredith Raimondo, Dean of Students at the time and a controversial figure during and after the event, left Oberlin for Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA, where she is now vice president for student affairs. The academic world sticks together.
No comments:
Post a Comment