Academic Integrity: Why Students Cheat Surveys say that 25 to 70 percent of all college students cheat according to William Shropshire's article "Of Being & Getting: Academic Honesty." The motivations behind why students cheat are the root of the problem of the dishonesty. Shropshire finds that the main reason students choose to cheat is they weigh out the benefits and see that it would help them to get ahead. Cheating has a low-risk factor and many students feel …showed first 75 words of 481 total…

…showed last 75 words of 481 total…to stop the cheating. The problems that Shropshire has by-passed are important because it shows how impossible it is to stop cheating altogether. Students will always cheat. People in the real world cheat as well. Whether it is on their taxes or fudging numbers for sales figures, cheating will always be prevalent in our society. Unless a sudden burst of morality hits the world, cheating of some sort will always be part of our society.