Transcript Academic Integrity and Rigor at UW Stout KATE THOMAS, US HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND ELIZABETH BUCHANAN, ETHICS CENTER.

Academic Integrity and Rigor at
UW Stout
KATE THOMAS, US HISTORY, SOCIAL
SCIENCE
AND
ELIZABETH BUCHANAN, ETHICS CENTER
Academic Integrity and Teaching:
The Significance
 Personal experiences
 Professional experiences
Statistics on Bad Behaviors
 Fabrication and falsification of data (Nature, 2010
study)
 Plagiarism: Many types
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Intentional
Unintentional
 Cheating
 “Research about cheating among college students has shown
the following to be the primary reasons for cheating: Campus
norm; No honor code; Penalties not severe; Faculty support of
academic integrity policies is low; Little chance of being
caught”
What Is Academic Integrity?
 UW Stout is an institutional member of the CAI.
 The Center for Academic Integrity defines academic
integrity as a commitment, even in the face of
adversity, to five fundamental values:
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honesty
trust
fairness
respect
responsibility
Here at Stout…
 Problems:
 Lack of communication
 Differing vocabularies
 Differing lenses
 Infrastructure gaps,
duplicative initiatives
 Working Group
 Advisement Center
 Center for Applied Ethics
 Dean of Students Office
 Faculty & Academic Staff
 Nakatani Teaching &
Learning Center
 University Library
 Writing Center
Promoting A Positive Culture
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On your syllabi and in class:
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Library Workshops
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Advising
Center for Applied Ethics Programs
This course uses a web-based service Turnitin.com with D2L dropboxes to reveal plagiarism
and academic misconduct. All files uploaded to the course D2L dropboxes will be submitted to
Turnitin. To preserve their privacy, all students have the right to remove their names from
papers before uploading to a drop box. In addition to using TII, the professors will also use
other standard verification measures if necessary to uphold standards of academic integrity, eg,
online searches, meeting with the student and verbal verification of the ideas in the file. If you
have any questions about academic misconduct, please review Stout’s policy in your orientation
materials or at http://www.uwstout.edu/services/dean/studentconduct/index.cfm. . If you
have other questions about ethics and academic integrity, please visit the Ethics Center:
www.uwstout.edu/ethicscenter
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Turnitin possibilities expanding—ways to use it progressively and positively
Future Possibilities?
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University Honor Code