Thank you for visiting the brand new International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) blog – Integrity Matters! I’m excited you’re here because I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this – and by “this”, I don’t mean just this blog, I mean the chal …
Integrity Matters
An ICAI Blog
providing the latest insights about academic integrity
Refining Academic Integrity Strategies
It is time to be strategic. As we prepare for next semester, it seems as if there is more to do and less time than ever before. Managing increasing academic misconduct caseloads with limited budgets and few staff can seem especially daunting. Faculty …
Topics: Blog, Instructional
Spotlight: Alberta Council on Academic Integrity Statement Against Racism in Matters Related to Academic Integrity
Spotlight: The Alberta Council on Academic Integrity Statement Against Racism in Matters Related to Academic Integrity On June 4th, 2020, the Alberta Council on Academic Integrity released a Statement Against Racism in Matters Relating to Academic Int …
Topics: Spotlight
The Importance of Research Integrity in a Global Pandemic
The Importance of Research Integrity in a Global Pandemic David Ison PhD Professor Graduate School Northcentral University While much of the attention of ICAI and its many members focuses on academic integrity from the student side, we have to remembe …
Plagiarism and Cheating in Response to the Pandemic
Plagiarism and Cheating in Response to the Pandemic Lee Ann Clements, PhD Director of Academic Integrity, Professor of Biology & Marine Science, Jacksonville University The move to remote learning in the wake of the pandemic has produced some unusu …
Being an Integrity Advisor
Being an integrity advisor Being an academic integrity advisor has been one of the most rewarding and challenging tasks I have ever practiced as a professional in recent years. Students who come to me are those that are involved in a reported incident …
Spotlight: Texas Tech University Ethics Center Faculty, Student, and Staff Ethics Symposium
For the fourth year running, Texas Tech University’s Ethics Center has hosted a Faculty, Student and Staff Ethics Symposium. Every spring, the campus community is invited to submit current scholarship related to ethics either from within an academic fi …
Shopping interrupted: Blocking access to contract cheating
Blocking access to gambling or pornography websites on postsecondary institutions’ networks seems like an obvious choice, but this was not always the case. The three of us were students in the late 1990s and 2000s when computer and internet access grew …
Topics: Educational, Research
Supporting professors for their online teaching practice
I work at the Center for Innovation in Education (CIE, for its initials in Spanish), at Universidad Panamericana in Mexico. The CIE is a space where we support professors to develop their creative ideas, launch projects and promote their teaching talen …
How to promote academic integrity in remote learning
Academic integrity in regular classrooms is not always easy to achieve, now imagine in remote ones. With the COVID-19 pandemic, this topic has become much more important, I might even say alarming. Because of my work, teachers constantly ask me how can …
Topics: Educational, Instructional
Restorative practices for academic integrity
When training to become a restorative conference facilitator, an early exercise involves brainstorming and then ranking the reasons that “most people do the right thing most of the time.” In the two years that I have given this training, invariably, “f …
