Although plagiarism is not new, the rate and frequency of plagiarism has steadily (and somewhat alarmingly) risen in the past twenty years, coinciding with the ease of access to the Internet. The current generation of students - Gen Z, they've been labeled - is growing up in a world of sharing, a world where, with a quick tap of a button,…

This paper addresses the problem of faculty members being confronted, in or out of the classroom, with students' personal reactions to some of the subject matter, especially sex and gender material, found in today's college sociology courses. The paper suggests some ways in which sociologists view student sharing of personal reactions and…

Conscientious teachers have more influence on parents than many assume. In this article, the author counsels a teacher on how to handle and help a student with a behavior problem that seems to stem from the child's home life. She presents a model for a parent/teacher conference. She also discusses another facet of the child's behavior problem and…