Promoting Integrity at the Classroom Level:
Consistency of Enforcement
It is the responsibility of individual faculty members and administrators to make sure that penalties are consistently enforced.
In answering their rhetorical question about why students cheat, Lathrop and Foss (2000) answer that "(1) it's easy, especially with new technologies, (2) fewer than 10% are caught, and (3) most of those who are caught get off without serious penalty."
Unless students know that there is reasonable certainty that serious sanctions will be imposed if they are caught cheating, there is no disincentive to cheat.
Schoolcraft College faculty can report student cheating and other forms of academic dishonesty using the SC-cares form.
