Stephanie Majors's List: Academic Integrity

• Academic integrity
• Academic integrity is the moral code or ethical policy of academia. This includes values such as avoidance of cheating or plagiarism; maintenance of academic standards; honesty and rigor in research and academic publishing.^[1]
• The southern honor code focused on duty, pride, power, and self-esteem
• During the late 18th century, academic integrity tightly correlated to the southern honor code.
• academic integrity was tied solely to the status and appearance of up standing character of the individual.
• acts of academic dishonesty performed to maintain their good name was seen as a necessary means to an end.
• Academic integrity was now beginning to replace honor of the individual honor to the university as an institution.
• In today’s contemporary world there are several factors that reshape the notion of academic integrity. Technology is the most predominant factor.
• Its influence on the educational system is twofold. It has greatly expanded the traditional views of teaching and learning while challenging them. Technology’s largest contribution to society has been its ability to make large amounts of information available to millions of people simultaneously

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• Definition of academic integrity
• Academic integrity means honesty and responsibility in scholarship. Students and faculty alike must obey rules of honest scholarship, which means that all academic work should result from an individual's own efforts. Intellectual contributions from others must be consistently and responsibly acknowledged. Academic work completed in any other way is fraudulent.  

• About Integrity
• The core principles of integrity create a foundation for success in all of life's endeavors. Integrity in academic settings is a fundamental component of success and growth in the classroom. It prepares students for personal and professional challenges as well as providing a blueprint for future fulfillment and success.