Discuss “Enforcing academic integrity from the ground up”
A number of news outlets have reported recent survey results from the Center for Academic Integrity (CAI) indicating that MBA candidates cheat more than graduate students in other fields. But don’t let this red flag distract you from the bigger picture.
In 1997, the same researchers showed 84 percent of undergraduate business students said they had cheated at least once, as compared to 72 percent of engineering students and 66 percent of all students. It’s easy to see those statistics and berate business students and business programs for the frequency of ethical violations. But if 66 percent of all students are cheating, the problem is not confined to students of any one major — it’s system-wide.
This is not to say that we at Carnegie...
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