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This paper deals with one of the most difficult and enduring issues in higher education: cheating. Predictably, the mass media emphasizes its more sensational aspects such as cheating scandals at military academies and commercial term paper mills. Available academic studies, however, document that classroom dishonesty is hardly an isolated phenomenon. Yet, public and campus concern shifts rapidly from indignation to inattention, leaving the problem much as it was.

Whistle-blowing, as a form of dissent in American bureaucracies, first emerged in force during the late 1960's and early 1970's, and was institutionalized in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. This article explores the phenomenon of whistle-blowing, including its origins, organizational contexts, and the need to provide protection for the person who blows the whistle. The author suggests several internal and external devices which can be implemented by an organization to make whistle-blowing less necessary, but concludes that whistle- blowing is a manifestation of serious organizational and governmental problems. As long as these problems exist, so will the need to blow the whistle.