Academic Integrity Policy: The Journey

Autor/inn/en	Spain, Judith Winters; Robles, Marcel Marie
Titel	Academic Integrity Policy: The Journey
Quelle	In: Business Communication Quarterly, 74 (2011) 2, S.151-159 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1080-5699
DOI	10.1177/1080569911404407
Schlagwörter	Academic Standards; Integrity; Student Behavior; Cheating; Plagiarism; Undergraduate Students; College Administration; Colleges; School Culture; Educational Change; Discipline Policy; Systems Approach + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Integrität; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Prellen; Plagiat; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Bildungsreform; Disziplinarmaßnahme; Systemischer Ansatz
Abstract	An undergraduate student breaks into a professor's office and steals the answers to an exam; the university initiates only process available--discipline pursuant to regulations governing student behavior through judicial affairs. An undergraduate student fabricates lab data and is flunked for the course; the student initiates only process available--grade appeal through department academic practices committee. A graduate student plagiarizes his master thesis and is dismissed from program; the student initiates only process available--appeal of dismissal through a readmission committee. All these scenarios actually happened and all were handled through various administrative university processes not ever designed to handle matters involving cheating, fabrication, and plagiarism. But when a university does not have a unified method of handling academic integrity issues, administrators must default to whatever processes are available. Because these scenarios happened, faculty and staff at a southeastern regional public institution began to discuss better methodologies to handle these matters. But how to even begin a conversation about a process, as well as changing a culture? This article details the story of the idea, the process, and the final product on the journey toward developing an academic integrity policy and procedure that provide a unified methodology for handling the results of student choices to plagiarize, cheat, or fabricate, and, along the way, begins to change a culture. (Contains 3 tables.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10