Building a Culture of Academic Integrity

As much as we hate to admit it, cheating goes hand-in-hand with the stressful, competitive environment of higher education. It happens everywhere from community colleges to the Ivy League. If you think your campus is immune from academic dishonesty, think again.

But you can do more than despair.

Instead of working to eliminate cheating, colleges and universities can instead focus their efforts on building cultures of integrity. These campus environments organically discourage academic dishonesty and allow schools to harness the learning opportunities in cheating incidents.

You can learn how to lead an integrity movement on your campus in Building a Culture of Academic Integrity: A Magna Publications White Paper.

This report provides a step-by-step guide to building a culture of integrity and offers strategies to more fully incorporate values and ethics education into curriculum.

This White Paper is based on an online seminar presented by Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D., Academic Integrity Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego. She is also the current Chair for the Center for Academic Integrity’s Advisory Council.

Bertram Gallant has vast experience in generating campus interest in integrity and ethics. She has worked with various stakeholders—students, faculty, and administrators—in myriad capacities in her work to promote values and ethics education. From policy to practice, Bertram Gallant can spot the obstacles to and opportunities for developing or deepening a campus culture of integrity.

In Building a Culture of Academic Integrity: A Magna Publications White Paper, Bertram Gallant helps you reframe your attitude toward cheating so that you—and your school—can view it as an opportunity for education and organizational change and not as a sign of failure. Specifically, you will learn to:

• Conduct a self-assessment of ethical learning opportunities on campus;
• Analyze and articulate your school’s approach to student cheating;
• Craft strategies for sustaining, enhancing, or changing your organization’s approach to academic dishonesty;
• Recognize opportunities for helping students learn from ethical failures, such as cheating and plagiarism;
• Identify campus colleagues who should be involved in an academic integrity initiative;
• Leverage student cheating as a stimulus for campus-wide prioritization of ethics and integrity; and
• Build a coalition of those stakeholders who have an interest in enhancing ethics and integrity on campus.

Ethical failures in higher education continue to make headlines, and the Internet and other technology make it easier and easier for students to borrow ideas or to access information aids inappropriately. This  40-page Magna White Paper will give professors and administrators real tools and strategies—not simply punishments—that can effectively change student behavior and develop academic and professional ethics.

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You can download the PDF of this white paper upon purchasing online, or get the print version mailed to you.

Building a Culture of Academic Integrity: A Magna Publications White Paper is an essential, informative resource for student affairs professionals, faculty, academic leaders (including divisional deans, department chairs, and provosts), and presidents or chancellors.

The bottom line is that students cheat. That won’t change. But you can turn it into a learning opportunity with the right attitude and approach.

Find out how to develop a campus culture of integrity in this solution-filled Magna Publications White Paper today.

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