Interesting post at The Culture Beat about college student plagiarism and cheating, and whether or not Christian colleges are better equipped to curb it:

...my plagiarizer wasn’t alone, even though Milligan is a Christian college, one of several in this region, one of scores across the country. Shouldn’t a religious environment make a difference?

“You’d like to think so,” said Michael Arrington, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Carson-Newman College, a Southern Baptist university in Jefferson City, Tenn. “But Christians are exposed to the same temptations as anyone else. We’re still human. I haven’t seen any studies that show Christian colleges have any lower incidence (of academic dishonesty) than state schools.”

A bit disheartening, but no huge surprise there: Christians sin about as much as anybody else. The article does suggest, however, that some Christian schools can legitimately boast lower cheating rates due to stricter honor codes, smaller and more close-knit school communities, and a focus on redemptive (rather than strictly punitive) handling of cheaters. The last element sounds particularly intriguing.

Any readers have experience with Christian college students caught cheating? Do, and should, Christian schools handle this sort of thing differently than their non-Christian counterparts?