Every class at my university starts the semester off with a good 15 minute long lecture by the professors telling us that we should do our own work, not copy from others’ when such an action is not fitting, and always list our sources if we do use someone else’s work.
Now, we’ve had two homework problem sets for my algorithms class so far, and each homework handout was mostly copied, word-for-word, from assignments from classes at other universities. Shoot, the first assignment’s PDF was just a copy of another class’s PDF file, typos and all.
Hypocrisy. When will they start handing out ethics code violations for professor’s too? This is not the first time I’ve had this happen.