'Tis the season for commencement exercises aka graduation. Having taught, advised, and mentored many students over the years, I am most impressed by those students who commence with applying the "real lesson" they (should have) learned in school. These are the lessons that probably were not in any syllabus. Regardless of one's academic major or chosen classes, some of these very simple but significant lessons probably relate in some way to the following examples: you will (po

What ever happened to studying for the examination? This story about two U. of Kentucky students attempting a "mission impossible" feat of (1) using air ducts to drop down into a professor's office and (b) stealing a copy of a statistics exam is incredible and sad at the same time. Sure, many of us professors have come to expect some students to cheat each academic year. But even if this era of copy/paste plagiarism, paying ghost writers for essays, sharing exam questions, an