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Age Consciousness, Age Segregation, and Age Denigration

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At the same time, age became a crucial legal category, defining when one could work, drink, smoke, marry, enter the military, and even have sexual relations. ” Middle-class children have grown more knowledgeable and socially- and electronically-connected. At first, age categories were largely applied to the young.

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Can Cheating on Steroids in Colleges and Universities be Stopped?

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Using unauthorized electronic resources (e.g., For example, Australia’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) has changed laws and developed an Academic Integrity Toolkit  based on research conducted by scholars there. Getting someone else to do your academic work (e.g., Similar work is ongoing in the U.K.