Showing posts with label reactions to Harvard searching Harvard email accounts of 16 resident deans to find who leaked internal advising memo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reactions to Harvard searching Harvard email accounts of 16 resident deans to find who leaked internal advising memo. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2013

Harvard Search of E-Mail Stuns Its Faculty Members; New York Times, 3/10/13

Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times; Harvard Search of E-Mail Stuns Its Faculty Members: "News of the e-mail searches prolonged the fallout from the cheating scandal, in which about 70 students were forced to take a leave from school for collaborating or plagiarizing on a take-home final exam in a government class last year. Harry R. Lewis, a professor and former dean of Harvard College, said, “People are just bewildered at this point, because it was so out of keeping with the way we’ve done things at Harvard.”... Last fall, the administrators searched the e-mails of 16 resident deans, trying to determine who had leaked an internal memo about how the deans should advise students who stood accused of cheating. But most of those deans were not told that their accounts had been searched until the past few days, after The Boston Globe, which first reported the searches, began to inquire about them."