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In the past 30 years, cheating in school has moved in and out of the periphery of the public eye, but the abrupt move to (and then lingering of) Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) and the explosion of new educationally‐peripheral technologies (e.g. proctoring companies; contract cheating providers), served to bring academic cheating into sharp focus for both the industry press (e.g. Lederman, 2020; Supiano, 2020) and general interest news media (CBS News, 2021; Hobbs, 2021; Moody, 2021; Newton, 2020). Higher education is at a crossroads and after the “Varsity Blues” scandal (Medina, Benner, and Taylor, 2019), the public is questioning the fairness of the education system as a whole. Cheating can tear at the fabric of the entire enterprise of higher education by turning any university into a diploma mill, so it has never been more important to ensure that students are graduating with an authentic education that prepares them for life as a whole human.

Together, the chapters is this book, and its companion piece (Journal of College and Character, 23(1), 2022), provide researchers, instructors, students, and staff with 30 years of knowledge about how we can all do more to stop cheating academic integrity and to start prioritizing the integrity of the academic experience and the academic degree in the twenty‐first century. Readers who have not yet found the special journal issue should add it to their reading list because it includes topics not covered explicitly in this volume, such as the influence of research from the Australasia region on our understandings of cheating; the important policy and procedure features that institutions must consider, including the history and impact of honor codes; the evolution in universities from punitive to educational responses to cheating; and finally, the call for institutions to attend to the complexities and needs of our student populations who come to higher education with linguistic and cultural diversities that impact how they relate and experience learning, academic work, and academic integrity.