Don’t kid yourselves, it’s not just AA students and hires.
The amount of cheating in academia has been rampant since before the Clinton years and has grown rapidly until it’s become culturally accepted.
Remember Josh Steiner in WC administration that under oath to avoid resposibility said he lied in his work diary.
Academic plaigarism has skyrocketed in the internet age. Twenty years an Ivy league MArch was almost literally copying a design from an Italian design ccompetition. When confronted, without batting an eye he told us it was an “homage” (silent haitch). Not more than a few hundred folks on the planet might have seen photos of the original drawings so he felt safe lifting it. Appropriately enough, later he was a member of the design team for the WJC Library.
Thanks. I’d like to think it hasn’t gotten that bad, but I sure wouldn’t bet on it. You could very well be right.