by P.D. Lesko and Elizabeth J. Carter

In the January/February 1994 issue of Adjunct Advocate, we interviewed Dr. Donald McCabe, then Founding President of the Center for Aca- demic Integrity (CAI). When we interviewed Dr. McCabe, his Center had just 50 member schools. We talked to him about his groundbreaking research into academic dishonesty among college students. At that time, Dr. McCabe told us that 67 percent of the over 6,000 students on 14 campuses who filled out his 1993 survey had reported cheating at least once during college. He also said that “19 percent [of undergraduates] said they cheated on four or more tests, qualifying as regular cheaters.”

Today, a dozen years later, Dr. McCabe still researches student cheating, but he no longer heads the Center for Academic Integrity. The Center’s membership has grown more slowly than Dr. McCabe had predicted it would in his 1994 interview. CAI currently has 390 institution members, including colleges in Canada and Australia. To look at that number another way, about eight percent of eligible American colleges and universities have institutional membership in the Center for Academic Integrity. Mark Hyatt serves as the President of the Center’s Executive Board of Directors, and Dr. Timothy Dodd is the organization’s Executive Director. Adjunct Advocate interviewed them in response to the CAI’s most recent (2005) student survey results (encompassing responses from 50,000 students on 60 campuses).

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