Special Guest Speaker: James M. Lang – Keynote on Cheating in Post-Secondary Education

Join Remotely this Morning via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/7055619906

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Please join us for a keynote address by Dr. James M. Lang, professor of English and the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. and author of the book Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty.

Dr. Lang will be speaking about cheating and academic dishonesty in a post-secondary education context. He explores the root causes of cheating and considers how faculty can best inspire students to learn.

“Nearly three-quarters of college students cheat during their undergraduate careers, a startling number attributed variously to the laziness of today’s students, their lack of a moral compass, or the demands of a hypercompetitive society. For James Lang, cultural or sociological explanations like these are red herrings. His provocative new research indicates that students often cheat because their learning environments give them ample incentives to try—and that strategies which make cheating less worthwhile also improve student learning. Cheating Lessons is a practical guide to tackling academic dishonesty at its roots.” [Source]

Biography: 

“James M. Lang is a professor of English and the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College in Worcester, MA, where he teaches courses in British literature and in creative nonfiction writing.  The author of five books and more than a hundred reviews or essays, on topics ranging from higher education to British literature, Lang writes a monthly column for The Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as contributing regularly to America and Notre Dame Magazine.  He edits a series of books on teaching and learning in higher education for the University of West Virginia Press. He has delivered public lectures and faculty workshops at more than a hundred colleges or universities in the United States and abroad.” [Source]

Books:

• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
• On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching
• Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
• Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
• Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Strategies for College Faculty