Easy Marks

This memoir combines exceptional storytelling and rigorous investigative journalism...a chilling and spellbinding account of what happens when one young woman stands up to injustice and academic misconduct committed by the people who purport to be teachers, mentors, advocates, and role models. This riveting and unforgettable memoir is meticulously researched, eloquently presented, and profoundly honest. - Eric Hoffer Book Award A masterpiece describing an unbelievable injustice. The story is remarkable for exposing the lack of logic and maliciousness of a university, and more so for how this brave young woman stood up against an institution, advocated for herself despite the odds, and used logic, Socratic reasoning and evidence to battle against this wrong. She and her story give hope for those in a similar position, as well as a template and method for fighting back. Ms. Wagner's book provides both hope and inspiration for our next generation of leaders. --Eric Storch, PhD, Professor, Baylor College of Medicine Your book is indeed remarkable-an original and unorthodox investigation into a complex and murky issue. It will stand as a major contribution to the critical effort to bring transparency, rationality, and fundamental fairness to the institutionalized covert administrative misconduct against students that pervades American universities and colleges. -Christine McCall, Member, State Bar of California; admitted to practice before the Federal District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. (Retired). Engrossing. The integrity of telling it like it is is on full display here, revealing the rank hypocrisy of administrative academic integrity procedures at great student expense. Adults ganging up on kids to no educational end: where is the accountability? A victim who stands up, raising a voice for victims like her. --Bill Puka, PhD, Professor, Ethicist Easy Marks could be a life-altering read for anyone caught in similar circumstances, and for that reason, her painstakingly careful approach to the potential academic and organizational minefield is admirable. Wagner has collected hundreds of pages to establish her integrity and point out underhanded practices perpetuated by certain members of the University faculty. She has reported hearings word for word, interjecting her own vibrant opinions...in this highly complex, fact-weighted unmasking. She includes interesting, even at times amusing commentary... --Feathered Quill Book Reviews Easy Marks is an intense personal story of academic wrongdoing. Look no further than Wagner's wild story to witness the lengths to which university's academic integrity policies can do more harm than good. There's a lot of detail that will interest university students who want practical information about the labyrinthine process of academic hearings and how they might defend themselves, and the book could be instructive for lawyers too. Wagner demonstrates rigorous commitment to reason and truth. This personal story, with so many facts so precisely recorded, is almost a manual for navigating this university's academic integrity process. --Independent Book Review