Georgia Tech Cheating Scandal - updated w/ new links

Georgia Tech's 2002 Cheating Scandal

http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/archive/news_releases/cheating.html

Jan. 2002 - This is what happens to a school and its reputation when it
unleashes an Inquisition on its students. Karen Boyd, an ambitious, but
immature and small minded bureaucrat with neither the experience nor
resume to be a school's chief prosecutor and judge, ran the assault,
under President Wayne Clough's stewardship, who accuses 75% of all
Georgia Tech students of being cheaters.

http://new.nique.net/issues/2002-01-18/news/1

April 16, 2002 - Article in Washington Post by Jay Mathews, one of the
nation's most respected education reporters, about Georgia Tech
student falsely accused of cheating. Leading educators lambaste Georgia
Tech, saying the students did nothing wrong. This article generated so
much negative publicity for Georgia Tech, the school abruptly voided
its no-collaboration policy, adopting one like MIT's.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&conten...=A58274

Slashdot: "Georgia Tech Cracks Down on Learning" - 979 archived
comments - the majority ridiculing Georgia Tech

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/16/1827234

Jan. 25, 2002 - Technique: Georgia Tech student newspaper: Students
Helping Students Does Not Constitute Cheating - student describes
"Orwellian" nightmare of going to Georgia Tech.

http://new.nique.net/issues/2002-01-25/opinions/3

June 4, 2002 - Article by Jay Mathews in Washington Post on Georgia
Tech's abandonment of "no collaboration" policy, admitting it
was wrong, tacitly exonerating all who were falsely accused by Karen
Boyd.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&conten...=A56366

July 22, 2003 - Georgia Tech internal report on cheating scandal
showing almost 1,000 students, many minorities and international
accused in a two year period. More than 30% say they were mistreated,
denied a fair hearing and due process by Karen Boyd. To open this file
you need powerpoint.

http://facultysenate.gatech.edu/EB2003-072203-Attach2A.ppt

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education defended students
falsely accused by Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech was added to FIRE's
watch list after it trampled the student's Constitutional rights to
due process.

http://www.thefire.org/issues/process.php3

1/18/02 - Georgia Tech sued for denying due process - GT lawyer and
Karen Boyd explain that fair trials not required on campus. The school
subsequently lost this case and the student was allowed to keep his
full scholarship and graduate.

http://new.nique.net/issues/2002-01-18/news/4


Georgia Tech 1998 internal report: "Causes of Cheating - Unclear
Expectations in the Classroom" commissioned just weeks after Karen
Boyd came on the job as Georgia Tech's judge, jury and executioner
and the student affairs office was suddenly faced with an avalanche of
cases. She has a 75% conviction rate, which could never happen in a
fair system. The report's title shows were the fault lies, with the
faculty, not the students.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ans/asee00.pdf

Dec. 15, 2004 - Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough, as co-chair of
the Council on Competitiveness, in a national report on innovation
recommends "collaboration" for the nation's economic future,
something that was a crime at Georgia Tech just three years ago. Under
Clough and Karen Boyd, hundreds of Georgia Tech students were accused
and convicted of cheating simply for discussing a single computer
science homework.

http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=499


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Suggested reading:
Franz Kafka's The Trial
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