Academic Integrity

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<p>Hi everyone! I attend Case Western Reserve University and I am on the Academic Integrity Board. A meeting today got me thinking and I'd like to hear about academic integrity policies, issues, and events at other schools. Anyone familiar with anything like that?</p>

<p>For those of you unfamiliar with AI, here is a link to a summary of Case's policy: <a href="http://studentaffairs.case.edu/office/integrity/policysummary.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://studentaffairs.case.edu/office/integrity/policysummary.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The purpose of the AI Board is twofold: to promote integrity on campus and to serve on hearings for those who have violated the AI policy. We are NOT a punitively-focused board--while our role in hearings is important, we spend much of our time reading about integrity, teaching about integrity, and working with professionals to develop new ways to inspire academic integrity and honesty.</p>

<p>Just wondering how it works at other schools--our former adviser is now the President of the Center for Academic Integrity, headquartered at Duke. We have worked with other schools, but I just wanted to see if anyone on CC could tell me about their school's system :-)</p>

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<p>Rice has an honor council and a pledge that is written on all major assignments and exams. "On my honor, I have neither given nor received aid on this examination." The honor council is rather punitively-focused... Whenever there is an honor council violation reported, it is their responsibility to investigate the violation and determine consequences.</p>

<p>As a result, most exams at Rice are unproctored and people can take exams on their own time, in whatever place they care to take the exams. It's rather nice to be trusted with the school's academic integrity.</p>

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<p>All entering students at W&M take an honor pledge, and there is often something to sign on the cover sheet of an exam.</p>

<p>Many exams are unproctored and such.</p>

<p>Our honor council investigates issues as they come up. They are elected by the student body.</p>