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About Easy Marks: Cracking A University's Academic
Product Description Every year, millions of students pay enormous sums to pursue a college education. Most have no idea how easily a single false cheating accusation can derail their dreams. Shocked, shamed, and silenced, they watch their futures crumble in the university kangaroo courts of “academic integrity.”Catherine Wagner was an enthusiastic, top-performing student when she unwittingly walked into a trap. She provided authorized aid to a classmate on one part of one homework question, as her professors specifically encouraged. A grader later flagged their answers as “similar,” and both students were accused of cheating. Innocent, and certain that she would be exonerated, Catherine had no idea that one professor’s reputation for convicting “cheaters” would supersede a fair hearing. Despite the support of eight PhD experts from across the U.S., she was dragged through her university’s academic integrity machine on so-called “evidence” of similarities—even something as absurd as simply using “H2O” to abbreviate water.Under threat of expulsion, Catherine was forced to defend her reputation and career prospects. Along the way, she discovered that the University seemed to repeatedly break federal law, spy on her, and reject science in favor of fallacies and falsehoods. Using statistics and behavioral science to scrutinize audio recordings and university emails, Catherine systematically unmasked the unthinkable: a confidence scheme fueling clandestine research on more than 2,000 unsuspecting students for over a decade. Review "A masterpiece describing an unbelievable injustice. The story is remarkable for exposing the lack of logic and maliciousness of a university, and more so for how this brave young woman stood up against an institution, advocated for herself despite the odds, and used logic, Socratic reasoning and evidence to battle against this wrong. She and her story give hope for those in a similar position, as well as a template and method for fighting back. Ms. Wagner's book provides both hope and inspiration for our next generation of leaders." -Eric Storch, PhD, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine "Your book is indeed remarkable—an original and unorthodox investigation into a complex and murky issue. It will stand as a major contribution to the critical effort to bring transparency, rationality, and fundamental fairness to the institutionalized covert administrative misconduct against students that pervades American universities and colleges." - Christine McCall, Member, State Bar of California; admitted to practice before the Federal District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. (Retired). "Engrossing. The integrity of "telling it like it is" is on full display here, revealing the rank hypocrisy of administrative academic integrity procedures at great student expense. Adults ganging up on kids to no educational end: where is the accountability? A victim who stands up, raising a voice for victims like her." --Bill Puka, PhD, Professor, Ethicist "Catherine Wagner's EASY MARKS: Cracking a University's Academic Integrity Con, is impressively researched and written and thoroughly credible and demonstrates how career ambition--in this case, a professor who wanted to establish herself as an integrity expert--can also harm students' career prospects. An IndieReader Approved book - 4.5 stars (out of 5)" -IndieReader . . "Readers will be left with no doubt that the university's process failed to deliver justice to its students, and they will find it easy to join with the author in her righteous anger at what seems to be a predetermined outcome. An intriguing, impassioned, but lengthy indictment of how universities handle cheating." - Kirkus Reviews . . " Easy Marks could be a life-altering read for anyone caught in similar circumstances, and for that reason, her painstakingly careful approach to the potential academic and organizational minefield is admirable. Wagner has collected hun
