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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a professor. In my experience, [b]students who plagiarize do so because they lack strong writing skills and/or do not understand the topic sufficiently to write about it in their own words. [/b]

The reality is that in trying to have a more diverse student body and a more diverse workforce, there are some (certainly not all, or even most) people admitted/hired who are simply lack the preparation needed in order to be successful. It is a problem that no one wants to talk about. I was just talking to a colleague (themselves a member of an underrepresented group) about this recently. It was brought up by them, not me. The university tells us that every opportunity (e.g. special research programs, fellowships, honors, etc.) should be available to every student who wants to participate, so they can pat themselves on the back about how diverse these programs are. But they aren't telling us what to do when students who want to be in these programs do not have the skillsets needed in order to do well. Are we supposed to try to close the gap, or lower our standards? I suspect the latter as it not possible to close the gap in terms of critical evaluation, synthesis, and writing in a matter of months. It is not students' fault that their earlier educational experiences were not as rigorous as those coming from more well-resourced backgrounds. But we can't pretend these things no longer matter.[/quote]

Exactly.

Which is why this case was so incredible. Not just a student but the University President.[/quote]
...of Harvard[/quote]

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