Resources for Faculty
Cultivating Cultures of Academic Integrity
The International Center for Academic Integrity envisions academic integrity as "cultivating cultures integrity." There are a number of strategies that faculty can engage to support the development of cultures of integrity.
Communicate
In addition to including the academic integrity pledge on the syllabus, integrate ongoing discussion of academic integrity. This might include:
1) Sharing why academic integrity is important to you and your work as an academic.
2) Broadening student understanding of academic integrity by contextualizing ethical practices. Familiarizing students with the concept of academic integrity is an opportunity to connect to the ethical principles and guidelines they will encounter in their professional lives. A sample of professional codes of conduct is available here.
3) Talking about academic integrity more than once and asking students to re-commit to academic integrity throughout the quarter. For example, asking students to reflect on and commit to academic integrity before an exam is highlighted by the Notre Dame center.
Assignment Design and Assessment
Revising assignment and assessment design can be effective ways to support cultures of integrity. A number of resources at SCU are available to support this.
- Digital Resources for Teach (DRT): DRT includes a number of resources for course and exam design.
- Educational Assessment: Educational Assessment is available for consultation on assessment design.
- Faculty Collaborative for Teaching Innovation: The Collaborative supports imaginative teaching through ongoing events and programs.
Connect Students to Resources
Connecting students to academic and wellness resources across campus can support students in managing stressors that may lead to academic dishonesty. Resources available to students are available here.
Copyright and Course Sharing Websites
Removing Your Materials From Course Sharing Websites
If your materials have been posted on one of these sites without your permission, you can request that the materials be removed. Most course sharing websites have online forms to request the removal of materials. Direct links to some of these forms are listed below:
Brock University provides useful templates for requesting materials be removed from both Canadian and US Websites on their Faculty-owned Materials page.
Academic Integrity at SCU
Resources specific to academic integrity at SCU.
- Academic Integrity WebsiteResources and information about academic integrity at SCU.
- Integrity Live! What are Students SayingPerspectives on academic integrity from SCU students.
- Reporting a ViolationInformation about reporting a suspected violation of academic integrity at SCU.
Further Reading- Academic Integrity
Further Reading and Resources
Popular & Scholarly Articles
- Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and Learning ImperativeLinks academic integrity to the teaching and learning imperative of the 21st century postsecondary educational system and may reinvigorate student affairs professionals, faculty, and other campus constituents who have struggled with reducing academic misconduct and enhancing academic integrity.
- Achieving Academic IntegrityIowa State University resources for academic integrity and responsible behavior.
- Articles and Cases on Cheating in CollegeA set of articles and case examples on cheating from SCU's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
- Best Way to Stop Cheating in Online Courses? 'Teach Better'Professors believe students cheat more online, and colleges ramped up use of detection tools amid shift to remote instruction this spring. Better assessment and student engagement would be more effective, experts say.
- COVID-19 Elevating the Problem of Plagiarism: The Implied Social Contract of Academic IntegrityThis qualitative investigation, inspired by a social media post on a Facebook group devoted to pandemic pedagogy and the storm of responses from educators, proposes a new theoretical approach to the persistent problem of plagiarism.
- Integrity Matters BlogEngaging and practical perspectives on academic integrity from the International Center for Academic Integrity
- It Takes a Village: Academic Dishonesty & Educational OpportunityColleges and universities should not simply try to reduce cheating but should try to find innovative and creative ways to use academic integrity as a building block in their efforts to develop more responsible students and more responsible citizens. Faculty can help by clarifying their expectations for appropriate behavior in their courses, and university administrators need to look more carefully at the role they play.
- Shifting the discourse of plagiarism and ethics: a cultural opportunity in higher educationExamines academic integrity in the context of an increasingly global context.
- Undergraduate Bulletin on Academic Integrity ProtocolProcedures intended to protect the integrity of the instructional program and of student academic achievement at SCU.
- Understanding Academic Integrity from a Teaching and Learning Perspective: Engaging with the 4M FrameworkA framework that situates academic integrity through four interrelated organizational lenses: (a) micro (individual); (b) meso (departmental); (c) macro (institutional); and (d) mega (community).
- University Brochure on Academic IntegrityA useful summer of academic integrity and academic integrity protocol at SCU.
Books from the SCU Library
Cheating Lessons by ISBN: 9780674724631Publication Date: 2013-09-02Drawing on an array of findings from cognitive theory, Lang analyzes the specific, often hidden features of course design and daily classroom practice that create opportunities for cheating. Courses that set the stakes of performance very high, that rely on single assessment mechanisms like multiple-choice tests, that have arbitrary grading criteria: these are the kinds of conditions that breed cheating. Lang seeks to empower teachers to create more effective learning environments that foster intrinsic motivation, promote mastery, and instill the sense of self-efficacy that students need for deep learning.
Handbook of Academic Integrity by Call Number: Electronic ResourceISBN: 9789812870988Publication Date: 2016-02-26The Handbook of Academic Integrity brings together diverse views from around the world and provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, beginning with different definitions of academic integrity through how to create the ethical academy. At the same time, the Handbook does not shy away from some of the vigorous debates in the field such as the causes of academic integrity breaches.
The Cheating Culture by ISBN: 0151010188Publication Date: 2004-01-26While there have always been those who cut corners, the author shows that cheating on every level--from the highly publicized corporate scandals to Little League fraud--has risen dramatically in the last two decades. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan pins the blame on the dog-eat-dog economic climate of the past two decades.
