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As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond


Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern faculty feel their leaders haven’t done enough to curb the crisis.

That has put teachers on the front lines of an ever-evolving war on fraud, muddied the teaching experience and thrown up significant barriers to students’ ability to access courses. / Photo by Vito di Stefano for Voice of San Diego Community colleges first started seeing bots managed by fraud rings invade classes around 2021. The time spent doing Blade Runner-esque bot detection has also stretched professors thin, said Caree Lesh, a counselor and the president of Southwestern College’s Academic Senate.

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