Tell her to have questions ready.*
Paul replied immediately: *She already has a list.*
I put the phone in my pocket and kept walking.
That afternoon, Professor Holt walked into Dr.
Marsh’s office.
I was not there.
It came in a white envelope with the university crest in the top left corner.
I set it on the kitchen table and made tea before I opened it.
The letter was from the Office of Academic Standards.
It was two pages.
The language was formal and careful, the way institutional language always is when it is trying to say something significant without saying it too directly.
But the meaning was clear.
Professor Holt had been found in violation of the university’s Academic Integrity and Professional Conduct Policy.
Specifically: the unauthorized use of a current student’s assessed work as a negative pedagogical example, without consent and without disclosure, while that student remained under his academic supervision.
