About 125 Harvard University undergraduates are being investigated
for cheating on a final exam earlier this year, the most widespread academic
misconduct scandal known at the school, college officials told Bloomberg's Best.
All of the students, who were in a class of more than 250,
will face hearings before Harvard’s Administrative Board, Jay Harris, dean of
undergraduate education at the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school, said
today in an interview.
Harvard professors probed the incident with months of
reading through the take-home exams beginning in May, Harris said. Students
found to have violated university rules may be required to withdraw from school
for a year, Harvard said. “These allegations, if proven, represent totally
unacceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at
Harvard depends,” Harvard President Drew Faust said in a statement on the
college’s website…..
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