Professors give them hours of homework to do and very little time to do the assignments in, so some students feel the need to cheat just so they can make it through the class and receive a passing grade. The entire responsibility for academic dishonesty does not fall completely one the shoulders of the professors, students are also responsible. Students going against their ethics is the main reason that they share partial responsibility for their academic dishonesty. Some of my classmates, Nichole Shine and Melissa Greenwood , try to define ethics in their papers. Students, faced with the decision to be dishonest, make their own decisions.
Nobody forces students to cheat on their assignments or on their tests.
The decision is all theirs and that is an issue of ethics. Students need to follow their ethics and make the decision not to be academically dishonest. Everything that teachers taught us about not cheating back in elementary school, we need to use in our students lives today. Students need to realize that dishonesty is wrong and that they need to find other honorable ways to complete everything expected of them. The Belmont University Honor System does not address reasons for academic dishonesty, nor does it give any solutions other than punishment of the students, to these reasons.