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...revenue estimates for the rest of the fiscal year. "2003 will be a year of tough policy decisions," says Bill Pound, the group's executive director. The only states saying their budgets are on sounder footing are Florida, Hawaii, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming...
...investigation that ended last Saturday at the University of Virginia (UVA), 45 students were dismissed and three graduates had their degrees rescinded after it was discovered that they had plagiarized on class assignments...
Bergmann has also served as faculty chair of dance at California State University, Long Beach and Shenandoah University in Virginia. She is a Fulbright scholar and has received three choreographic fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts...
...work. If a student is a cheater, is it really feasible that putting his signature on a piece of paper is suddenly going to infuse him with integrity? I don’t think so—and neither, I suppose, do the nearly 50 ex-University of Virginia students who are now looking for a new school, after they made a travesty of their school’s vaunted honor code by cheating off each other in a physics class last year...
Schools must also remember that there is a danger in enforcing too harsh a punishment policy. Some schools, like the University of Virginia, have the same punishment—expulsion—for every case of academic dishonesty. These “one-strike” policies don’t allow for mistakes, and are often seen as too harsh—making some students and teachers uncomfortable about turning cheating in when they...