The Death of the University Degree - by Carl Hendrick
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Cognitive surrender, borrowed competence and the "vast counterfeiting of knowledge"
For 133 years, Princeton University upheld an honour code that allowed students to take exams unsupervised, trusted to write a simple pledge on their answer sheets affirming they had not cheated. In May 2026, the faculty voted to end the tradition. Starting in summer 2026, all in-person exams will require proctoring. As Rose Horowitch noted in The Atlantic, the honour code had lasted through two world wars, the upheaval of the 1960s, the disillusionment of Watergate, and even the rise of search engines and SparkNotes, but it did not survive ChatGPT. One professor at Cornell responded…
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