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Prof. Donald "Don" L. McCabe


Self Description

May 2006: "Don McCabe is a Professor of Management & Global Business at Rutgers University. Over the last fifteen years he has done extensive research on college cheating, surveying over 100,000 students at more than 140 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. He has also surveyed over 18,000 high school students in the United States during the last five years. His work has been published widely in business, education and sociology journals and he is founding president of The Center for Academic Integrity."

http://www.academicintegrity.org/board_bios_all.htm#mccabe

Third-Party Descriptions

July 2010: "The figure declined somewhat from 65 percent earlier in the decade, but the researcher who conducted the surveys, Donald L. McCabe, a business professor at Rutgers, doubts there is less of it. Instead, he suspects students no longer regard certain acts as cheating at all, for instance, cutting and pasting a few sentences at a time from the Internet."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/education/06cheat.html

March 2006: Sociologists argue that the upsurge in school dishonesty also reflects attitudes in the culture at large, where cheating has become acceptable and even admired. International tycoons make enviable fortunes through market manipulation and fraud: think Enron, WorldCom and Martha Stewart. Scientists like South Korea's once revered stem-cell research pioneer, Hwang Woo Suk, fake lab results. In a recent poll of 25,000 high-schoolers by the California-based Josephson Institute of Ethics, nearly half agreed with the statement 'A person has to lie or cheat sometimes in order to succeed.' In Australia, a new study from Griffith University of students at four major campuses revealed that 40 percent believe faking research results is a 'minor' offense. 'Students feel like it's just no longer a big deal to cheat,' says Don McCabe, the founder of Duke University's Center for Academic Integrity.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11904737

June 2007: The reluctance of school officials to quantify cheating has some experts like Donald McCabe, a professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School, concerned. McCabe conducted a survey in 2006 that revealed that B-school students tend to cheat more often than their counterparts in other graduate school programs. Don't Ask, Don't Tell

http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/jun2007/bs20070620_937949.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

May 2006: In a survey of nearly 62,000 undergraduates on 96 campuses over the past four years, two-thirds of the students admitted to cheating. The survey was conducted by Don McCabe, a Rutgers professor who has studied academic misconduct and helped found the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/education/18cheating.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Founder/Co-Founder of Center for Academic Integrity (CAI) Organization May 22, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Rutgers University Organization May 22, 2006

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Jul 05, 2010 To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery (Cheat Sheet)

QUOTE: As the eternal temptation of students to cheat has gone high-tech — not just on exams, but also by cutting and pasting from the Internet and sharing of homework online like music files — educators have responded with their own efforts to crack down.

 New York Times
Jun 20, 2007 Are B-Schools Hiding the Cheaters?: Want to know where business students are cheating? Many schools have honor codes, but it's not easy to find out when they're broken

QUOTE: With the controversy surrounding the cheating scandal at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, a prospective business school student might be inclined to take a closer look at just how often cheating occurs at some top B-schools. But if you're of that mind, be prepared to encounter some roadblocks along the way.

 BusinessWeek
Apr 30, 2007 Duke MBAs Fail Ethics Test: Thirty-four Fuqua School of Business students are accused of violating the school's honor code by cheating on an exam

QUOTE: The incident has stunned the business-school community, affirming fears that cheating might be making a comeback at MBA programs. The scandal comes at a time when many business schools are taking a closer look at their honor codes and implementing new measures such as student-run courts meant to discourage students from deceiving the school's faculty.

 BusinessWeek
Aug 14, 2006 10 Things Your College Student Won't Tell You

QUOTE: Currently, in 13 million households — up 70% from 2000 — parents are financially supporting children 18 and over, whether they live at home or not. It's a trend that experts don't expect to end anytime soon.

 Smart Money
May 18, 2006 Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech

QUOTE: With their arsenal of electronic gadgets, students these days find it easier to cheat. And so, faced with an array of inventive techniques in recent years, college officials find themselves in a new game of cat and mouse, trying to outwit would-be cheats this exam season with a range of strategies...

 New York Times
Mar 27, 2006 The Perfect Score: Student cheating is reaching new levels,forcing an overhaul of standardized tests.

QUOTE: What's turning students into crooks? First and foremost, technological advances have made cheating easier than ever.

 Newsweek
May 10, 2001 U. of Virginia Hit By Scandal Over Cheating

QUOTE: Some 122 students stand accused of cheating on term papers in a popular introductory physics class, with as many as half of them expected to face the only penalty available for cheating here: expulsion or loss of degrees

New York Times