Every festival is new, and everyone has gotten better. We've been able to do a better job of connecting students with wonderful authors from all over.

Students aren't knowledgeable, and are probably lazy and procrastinate, so they cheat. These are crimes based on a lack of knowledge. It's a terrible character trait to develop.

Most students will look back years from now with fond memories of URI, and you don't want them to say to their children, 'boy did I cheat my way through URI,' and lower their integrity, and the university's.

I would expect there are students out there who rationalize that they cheated out of boredom with the class. That's like justifying a bank robbery, you can't.

The work camps proved to be very positive experiences for our students.

What our students found was that they couldn't take notes fast enough. They like being able to review over and over again. They like not having the pressure of having to get all the notes down in class, and instead they're able to concentrate on the content.