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Elisabeth Tully's List: Academic Integrity
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Feb 27, 08
Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campus
* Fostering Academic Integrity at Rutgers
* Srategies for Preventing Cheating
o Preventing Cheating on Term Papers and Take-Home Written Assignments
o Integrity on Examinations
o Essay Exams
o Objective Exams
o Calculators
o Collaboration
o The Syllabus
+ Some Additional Statements Taken From the Syllabus in Courses Posted on the Web
+ Example of a Departmental Policy Statement
* Reporting Violations of Academic Integrity
* Thanks
Fostering Academic Integrity at Rutgers
Academic Integrity is a fundamental cornerstone of any academic community. In many ways, the perceptions about the quality of an institution and the value of its degrees are based on the belief that graduates earned their diploma honestly and that faculty certified that graduates have knowledge and skills learned through rigorous work guided by high standards of excellence. Inherent in such an article of faith is a belief that a students work was honest and that each one did it themselves. Certainly there are few shortcuts to learning, but a shortcut that seems to be increasing is cheating. Some studies suggest that as many as 75% of all students cheat in institutions like Rutgers (McCabe). Whether this is the case is arguable. What is not arguable is that responsibility for monitoring the Policy on Academic Integrity for Undergraduate and Graduate Students, responsibility for setting guidelines for how this policy applies to each class, falls on each instructor in every class.
There is more to this than merely watching out for violations and reporting them to the appropriate person. Talking about Academic Integrity is an opportunity to teach students about the proper standards of academic behavior. Many students are genuinely confused about what constitutes plagiarism or unauthorized assistance on an assignment. Some of them do not understand why it is so important to cite their sources -
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