Mike AdamsPrincipal, Gunnison High School |
Dr. Ali AlkazemiAssociate Professor, Kuwait University |
Ali Alkazemi is an Associate Professor of Public Administration - College of Business Administration, Kuwait University. Since March 2005 - to date, he has been serving as the Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs for Agreements, External Collaboration and Professional Development. He earned his Ph.D in Public Administration in 1993 - University of Pittsburgh, PA.
His research interest is Administrative Ethics, Ethics in Academia, Productivity, and public financial management. Dr. Ali Alkazemi has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Higher Education, Public Performance and Management Review; Journal of Business Ethics; and International Journal of Public Administration.
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Tracey BretagUniversity of South Australia |
Tracey Bretag BA (Hons), MA, Ed.D, teaches a range of communication and ethics courses in the School of Management at the University of South Australia. She is the Editor of the International Journal for Educational Integrity, and the Chair of the Asia-Pacific Forum on Educational Integrity. Her research interests include academic integrity, internationalisation of higher education, teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), developing learning communities, new technologies, computer mediated and intercultural communication.
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Dr. Karen CliffordDirector, Student ServicesNorfolk Collegiate School |
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Deborah EerkesDean of Students, University of Alberta |
Deborah Eerkes has been with the University of Alberta since 1999. She began her time there as an ombuds in the Student OmbudService. As a result of the casework she encountered in that position, she designed and implemented a comprehensive, campus-wide academic integrity program at the University of Alberta called, “Truth*In*Education: T*I*E Integrity into Learning” (2001). In 2003, she became the first Canadian member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Academic Integrity (CAI), housed at Duke University, and has been very active in both Canada and the United States promoting academic integrity and the work of CAI.
In 2005, Deborah left the OmbudService to become one of the University’s two Discipline Officers. In the course of a reorganization of what was formerly called the Discipline Office, she has made an effort to combine the preventative work of the TIE program and the educative use of sanctions in order to take a proactive approach to student discipline issues.
Deborah is currently the Director of the University of Alberta’s new Office of Student Judicial Affairs. She is also the current President of the newly-formed organization CAISJA (Canadian Academic Integrity and Student Judicial Affairs), a division of the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services.
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Dr. Tricia Bertram GallantAcademic Integrity Coordinator, University of California |
Tricia Bertram Gallant is the Academic Integrity Coordinator for the University of California, San Diego. She earned her Ph.D. in Leadership with a Higher Education focus at the University of San Diego. She has served as a director on the board of the Center for Academic Integrity, and has taught leadership and higher education administration at the undergraduate and graduate level. She focuses her work and writings on encouraging higher education faculty and administrators to reconsider student academic misconduct beyond that of “students behaving badly” to a systemic and complex issue shaped by a multitude of organizational, institutional, and societal factors.
Dr. Bertram Gallant has published articles in The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, and the NASPA Journal. In 2008, her ASHE Monograph, Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and Learning Imperative, will be published by Jossey-Bass. issues.
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Mark HyattPresident, The Classical Academy |
Mark Hyatt is the President of The Classical Academy in Colorado, which, under his leadership, was recognized in 2004 as the number one K-12 school in America for character education. During his previous career in the Air Force, President Hyatt served nine years overseas as a fighter pilot.
Mid-career, he became Director of Honor and Ethics at the USAF Academy and later served at the Pentagon advising the Secretary of Defense. While at the USAF Academy, he also served as Vice-Commandant and Director of the Center for Character Development, where he continues to serve as Director Emeritus.
In 2000, he received the Citizenship and Character Award from former President Gerald Ford for his leadership of this program. From 2004 - 2006, he also served as President of the Board of Directors for the Center for Academic Integrity.
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Dr. William L. KiblerV.P. of Student Affairs, Mississippi State University |
William L. Kibler is the Vice President for Student Affairs and Professor of Counselor Education at Mississippi State University. He has also served in a variety of leadership roles in student affairs at the University of Florida and Texas A&M University. Bill earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and master’s and specialist degrees in counselor education from the University of Florida, and a doctoral degree in educational administration from Texas A&M University.
He has served as the President of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs and as the President of the Center for Academic Integrity and has also served in a number of leadership roles in the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, including national conference chair. He has co-authored a book on academic integrity and a book on student judicial affairs. He has authored several book chapters and articles and made numerous professional presentations in the areas of academic integrity, student judicial affairs and student affairs administration and has consulted with numerous leading universities on these topics. Bill also serves on the editorial board of the NASPA Journal. Bill and his wife Pam are the parents of six children.
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Dr. James LancasterAssistant Professor, Appalachian State University |
James (Jim) Lancaster is currently an Assistant Professor of Human Development and Psychological Counseling at Appalachian State University. Jim has over thirty years of experience in student development practice and teaching in higher education. He holds a bachelor’s (1972) and master’s (1974) degrees in history and a doctorate (1979) in administration of higher education, all from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has written and presented widely on the topic of legal/developmental/ethical concerns in administration. He is a past-Director and current faculty member of the Donald D. Gehring Student Judicial Affairs Institute of the Association for Student Judicial Affairs where he teaches the ethics track. He is a Past-President of the Center for Academic Integrity. He recently completed a three year term with the editorial board of the Journal of College Student Development and has written and spoken widely on integrity and ethics issues. He is the co-editor of a published monograph on New Directions in Student Services titled “Beyond Law and Policy: Reaffirming the Role of Student Affairs” and editor of the recently published book “Exercising Power with Wisdom – Bridging Legal and Ethical Practice with Intention”. His current book, co-edited with Dr. Diane Waryold is titled Student Conduct Practice: The Complete Guide for Student Affairs
Professionals.
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Dr. Donald L. McCabeProfessor,Rutgers University |
Donald L. McCabe is a Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers University. Over the last seventeen years he has done extensive research on college cheating, surveying over 165,000 students at more than 160 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. He has also surveyed over 40,000 high school students in the United States. His work has been published widely in business, education and sociology journals and he is founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity.
Don has a B.A. in Chemistry from Princeton University (1966), an M.B.A. in Marketing from Seton Hall University (1970), and a Ph.D. in Management from New York University (1985). He worked for over 20 years in the corporate world before joining Rutgers in 1988. His last corporate position was Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Devro, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company.
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Catherine MerianoChairman, Advisory Council |
Catherine Meriano is a professor of occupational therapy. Her area of expertise is occupational therapy with the adult and elderly population, either for wellness programs or intervention following a disability. She has worked in acute care hospitals, outpatient settings, subacute/extended care facilities and homecare.
Meriano received her BS in occupational therapy and MHS in education for health science from Quinnipiac and her juris doctorate from the Quinnipiac University School of Law. She co-authored the book "Evaluation of Range of Motion and Muscle Strength for the Occupational Therapist" and has published nationally on topics such as dysphagia (swallowing disorders), the legal aspects of health care and academic integrity. She is the current chairman of the Advisory Council of the Center for Academic Integrity.
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Mohamed Nagib Abou-ZeidProfessor, American University of Cairo |
Mohamed Nagib Abou-Zeid is a professor of Construction Engineering and Chair of the Academic Integrity Council, the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. He received his Ph.D with honors from the University of Kansas in 1994 and has been active on the academic integrity front since 2002. Mohamed worked with his colleagues to prepare AUC's first Code of Ethics to which students, faculty and staff pledge.
In 2004, Mohamed has been appointed by the President of Egypt as a member in the Education and Research Committee in the Shura Council. In 2006, Mohamed was appointed as Board member in the National Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Education.
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Gary PavelaDirector of Judicial Programs & Student Ethical Development, University of Maryland |
Gary Pavela Gary Pavela teaches in the honors program at the University of Maryland and writes law and policy newsletters to which over 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada subscribe. He was a law clerk to Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C (the training arm of the United States Courts), and a staff attorney for the State University of New York, Central Administration. He has been a Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Center for Behavioral Science and law and serves on the Board of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
In 2002 Gary was designated a "Fellow" of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Fellows of the Association are identified as individuals who have "brought distinction to higher education and to the practice of law on behalf of colleges and universities across the nation." In 2005 he received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' "Outstanding Contribution to Literature and Research" award. In 2006 he was designated the University of Maryland "Outstanding Faculty Educator" by the Maryland Parents' Association.
Dr. Daniel E. WuesteEx Officio Advisory Council Member |
Daniel E. Wueste is Director of the Robert J. Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University in South Carolina. He did his graduate work in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (M.A., 1979) and Washington University in St. Louis (Ph.D., 1985). His research and writing focus on issues in three areas: legal philosophy, social and political philosophy, and professional ethics. Wueste has a special interest in what ethicists can learn from legal philosophers and vice versa. His first article pursuing this interest, "The Realist's Challenge in Professional Ethics: Taking Some Cues From Legal Philosophy," was published in the journal Professional Ethics.
Wueste has conducted workshops and seminars on practical and professional ethics, academic integrity, and ethics across the curriculum on many college and university campuses both in the United States and abroad. Wueste is President of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum.









