Did Harvard Mishandle Its Cheating Scandal?
You may have heard that as many as 125 students who took a 2011 Harvard University government class are currently being investigated by school authorities on suspicion of cheating due to widespread similarities in answers recorded on a final take-home test. Richard Levick of Forbes thinks that the school has made a few big PR mistakes in the handling of the “largest academic misconduct scandal” in its history, and we have to agree.
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By releasing the accusations to the public and letting the story hang around in journalists’ news feeds for more than a week, Harvard has all but encouraged Schadenfreude-fueled
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