The HBS hosts attempt to measure the real stakes of cheating.

According to a recent study, almost 60% of college/university students in the United States admit to having cheated at least once during their studies. Around 15% of U.S. students admit to plagiarizing intentionally and, of those, less than 1 in 5 is caught or punished for academic dishonesty. Professors regularly report that cheating and plagiarism is on the rise; many blame remote learning for what feels like a "plagiarism pandemic."

Meanwhile, plagiarism detection software has become BIG business, coercing academics to spend almost as much time surveilling and policing as they do researching and teaching. Who does this new, more martial and antagonistic focus on plagiarism help? And who does it hurt?

In this episode, we get to the root of higher education's commitment to academic integrity and its increasingly pathological obsession with cheating.

Full episode notes at this link:
http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-62-the-plagiarism-pandemic

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