On Friday, the Faculty Council at Indiana’s dental school voted to dismiss 9 of its students, suspend 16 for various lengths of time and send a letter of reprimand to 21 others for violating its professional code of conduct by knowing about and not reporting the incident. The class has just under 100 students.
Two professional conduct committees — one comprising students and the other faculty — looked into the cheating allegations and the entire faculty had a say in the final decision.
“This has been a wrenching experience for everyone involved — for students who made this big error and classmates, faculty, administrators and alumni,” Goldblatt said. “It’s sad that this happened and it’s sad that we had to take this action.”
The school has an obligation to take cases of cheating seriously because it certifies that graduates “can be trusted to do the absolute right thing in every situation in their professional lives, even when nobody is looking,” he added.
The article is accompanied by some strongly-felt comments and pretty distressing statistics.
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