In the past year, a "leadership group," comprised of the executive director and current and past presidents of the Center for Academic Integrity, engaged in a series of discussions, meetings, proposal reviews, and negotiations with a number of universities and higher education organizations. Our aim was to explore new partnership opportunities with an eye to strengthening the CAI's mission activities and enhancing its service to its members and the higher education community. We have completed the process and are very pleased to announce that the CAI Board of Directors voted unanimously to accept the proposal from Clemson University to relocate our organization to its campus. The Center for Academic Integrity will move to its new home at Clemson this summer. At Clemson, the Center for Academic Integrity will be part of a rich matrix of organizational units with common interests and purposes. As such, in addition to promoting academic integrity actively on the Clemson University campus, the CAI will work with the Rutland Institute for Ethics, the Eugene T. Moore School of Education, the Graduate School, and the Office of Research Compliance to expand its research activities, cast additional light on faculty responsibilities in sustaining the integrity of the academy, and develop/pilot integrated approaches to academic integrity in teacher education as well as graduate programs in student affairs and K-12 administration. The CAI’s intellectual leadership and public advocacy will be enhanced further with support from and collaborative activities with the Office of Student Affairs, Undergraduate Studies, the Pearce Center for Professional Communications, and the College of Business and Behavioral Science. We plan to complete our move to South Carolina in June and commence the official affiliation on July 2. While we will relinquish our independent 501 (c) (3) nonprofit status, the Center for Academic Integrity will continue as a membership organization in a different and more robust affiliation with the Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University, which is a nonprofit organization.
The Center for Academic Integrity is deeply grateful for the 10 years of exceptional partnership with the Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke University, which has truly benefited all parties and significantly advanced the agenda of academic integrity on the Duke campus and within the higher education community in this country and abroad. We are particularly indebted to Dr. Elizabeth Kiss, the former director of the Kenan Institute and now president of Agnes Scott College, and Dr. Daisy Waryold, former executive director of the Center for Academic Integrity and now assistant professor of human development and psychological counseling at Appalachian State, for their vision, energy and leadership in propelling the Center for Academic Integrity to the forefront of the academic integrity discourse at Duke and within the post-secondary arena. Building on their work, the leadership group, members of the CAI Board of Directors, and the executive director are committed to assisting in an effective transition to the Clemson campus.