Thursday, June 30, 2005

Another cheating scandal at UVA?

This time involving graduate students in the economics department. Apparently a "large fraction" of this past year's class of 30 first year graduate students used the textbook's online answer key to do their homework. If this incident results in a large number of graduate students getting expelled or volunteering to withdraw from the program, it could possibly affect the number of teaching assistants available to teach undergraduate students. Economics is the largest undergraduate major at UVA and the department is already understaffed as it is.

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