The university continues to work through the cases filed in the 2020-2021 academic year, unable to finish most of them by the end of the spring semester, Deborah Grzybowski, chair of COAM and professor in the College of Engineering, said.Īccording to Ohio State’s Code of Student Conduct, students violate the code when they compromise the academic integrity of the university or undermine the education process. However, the number of resolved cases is an underrepresentation. Compared to the 2019 academic year, there were almost 400 more cases found in violation of course rules or assignment guidelines, and over 300 more students were found in violation of knowingly providing or in possession of information during exams in 2020. Of the 1,112 cases resolved, 92.7 percent found the student in violation of academic misconduct - almost double the 721 cases resolved in 2019, according to the 2019-2020 annual report.

With online tests and class materials easily accessible during a year of virtual learning, Ohio State students’ desire to cheat might have been the highest it’s ever been - or so the Committee on Academic Misconduct’s 2020-2021 annual report suggests.

Credit: Christian Harsa | Special Projects Director The Committee on Academic Misconduct had 1,112 cases resolved in the 2020-2021 academic year - almost double the 721 academic misconduct cases in 2019, according to the COAM 2020-2021 Annual Report.

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