Summer Series Post-Blog 3: Working with Faculty
Many thanks to everyone who attended our session “Working with Faculty” last week! As typically happens, Kelly and I were both energized by our conversation and regretful that we didn’t have more time. In wrapping up the topic, we wanted to share some thoughts on the recommended readings from our workshop. As the former English professor, Kelly nominated me to author it!
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What do you find most exciting/ challenging/ interesting about working with faculty in academic integrity work? Has your answer to that shifted over the years? If so, how? If not, why not? KELLY: Faculty are really the defenders of academic integrity. Because they score student work, it is instructors who notice and respond to academic dishonesty. This is a big responsibility that is not commonly recognized in our triad of teaching, research, and community service responsibilities for faculty. As a result, I am happy to support any instructor as they go through this process. Addressing academic dishonesty can be lonely work, and it is not the work that any person hoped to do when they pursued teaching in higher education. I think the biggest challenge, especially at a large university, is getting all faculty on board with our policies and procedures. For a variety of reasons, some instructors either turn a blind eye to dishonesty concerns or handle them outside of required procedures. I think this harms our learning environment in many ways and detracts from any sense of “fairness” for students.
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The Summer Series of webinars continues the blog takeover with the second post-webinar blog. The presenters from Workshop 2: Understanding Evidence on June 13 reflect on takeaways from their session.
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