Efforts to Combat Plagiarism and Illegal File Sharing Were on the Rise in the Fall of 2010

	Public research universities	Private research universities	Public 4-year colleges	Private 4-year colleges	Community colleges	All institutions, fall of 2010	All institutions, fall of 2009
Institutions with campus or department licenses for antiplagiarism software	77%	69%	76%	60%	56%	65%	62%
Institutions with written acceptable-use policies in place for Internet downloads of commercial music and video	94%	96%	92%	94%	81%	91%	88%
Has your institution developed plans to combat piracy?
Doing so already	92%	84%	79%	75%	57%	75%	62%
Beginning in 2010-11	4%	4%	7%	10%	8%	8%	7%
Reviewing for 2010-11	3%	9%	11%	13%	32%	15%	28%
Previously decided not to do so	1%	2%	3%	2%	3%	2%	3%

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	Public research universities	Private research universities	Public 4-year colleges	Private 4-year colleges	Community colleges	All institutions, fall of 2010	All institutions, fall of 2009
Institutions with campus or department licenses for antiplagiarism software	77%	69%	76%	60%	56%	65%	62%
Institutions with written acceptable-use policies in place for Internet downloads of commercial music and video	94%	96%	92%	94%	81%	91%	88%
Has your institution developed plans to combat piracy?
Doing so already	92%	84%	79%	75%	57%	75%	62%
Beginning in 2010-11	4%	4%	7%	10%	8%	8%	7%
Reviewing for 2010-11	3%	9%	11%	13%	32%	15%	28%
Previously decided not to do so	1%	2%	3%	2%	3%	2%	3%
Has your institution established technology-based deterrents?
Doing so already	65%	44%	60%	52%	32%	51%	38%
Beginning in 2010-11	5%	2%	7%	9%	10%	8%	6%
Reviewing for 2010-11	12%	22%	23%	20%	42%	25%	36%
Previously decided not to do so	18%	31%	10%	19%	16%	17%	21%
Has your institution offered students alternatives to illegal downloading and distribution?
Doing so already	49%	31%	32%	24%	12%	27%	20%
Beginning in 2010-11	1%	2%	2%	3%	9%	4%	2%
Reviewing for 2010-11	9%	22%	20%	15%	30%	19%	26%
Previously decided not to do so	40%	44%	47%	59%	50%	50%	53%
Note: Survey questions are paraphrased from the original versions in a Campus Computing Project survey of 523 colleges and universities in the fall of 2010. Because of rounding, answers may not add up to 100 percent.
Source: Campus Computing Project