February 4, 2008
Lyon College News Bureau

An expert on academic cheating will share his research on the subject with Lyon College students this month.

Dr. Don McCabe, professor of management and global business at Rutgers University, will speak about academic cheating at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in Nucor Auditorium on the Lyon College campus. The event, sponsored by the Convocations Committee, is free and open to the public.

Over the last 17 years, McCabe has done extensive research on college cheating, surveying more than 150,000 students at over 150 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. He has also surveyed over 40,000 high school students in the United States during the last six years.

McCabe’s work has been published widely in business, education and sociology journals and he is founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity, a consortium of more than 350 colleges and universities that are joined in a united effort to promote academic integrity among college and university students. The center is based at Clemson University.

McCabe has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Princeton University (1966), a masters in marketing from Seton Hall University (1970), and a doctorate in management from New York University (1985). He worked for more than 20 years in the corporate world before joining Rutgers in 1988. His last corporate position was vice president of sales and marketing for Devro, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company.

Dr. Don McCabe