After a year of learning remotely or in a campus bubble, many Amherst College students prepared for a fall semester that would look like pre-COVID-19 times.
At Virginia Commonwealth University, reports of academic misconduct soared during the 2020-21 school year, to 1,077 — more than three times the previous year's number.
Investigators identified 105 midshipmen who may have accessed unauthorized resources during the test despite efforts from the school's Physics Department to prevent cheating such as requiring midshipmen to submit their calculations from the test on a sheet of paper.
Higher education is playing a critical role in upskilling and reskilling the American workforce to support career changes, while also stemming the fall in our nation's rate of innovation.