ETHOS

APRIL 2015

A Monthly Publication of the International Center for Academic Integrity Featuring Summaries of Integrity News + News from the Center

2015 Integrity Week at Universidad de Monterrey

By: Adriana Lizeth Barberena Cerda

From April 13

4/28/2015

to April 17th, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM)

conducted their first Integrity Week on campus with experiential
exercises for students to illustrate the six academic integrity values:
honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage. Every day
of the week, a different value was put into practice through a specific
dynamic where students and faculty participated.
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The honest buy was an activity for the value of honesty, where people
could buy ice cream from a cart on their own without supervision.
Another activity consisted of intentionally dropping money and waiting
for someone to return it, and upon its return, a group of students rushed
to congratulate the honest person with balloons and some prizes. Both
activities were very well-received.
A snakes and ladders game was played to highlight the dos and donts of
being responsible. For trust, there were obstacles to overcome but the
only way to do it was by being blindfolded and trusting in yourself and
the voices of unidentified guides.
For the value of fairness, students had to answer a quiz and measure
their results on The Integrity Scale. A puzzle that assembled into a
quote of respect, and two mimes acting out that copying is not funny
were the activities to represent the value of respect.
For the closure of the event, a
life-sized Jenga game was
played to reinforce the value
of courage and the other five.
All those who participated
during the week were rewarded
through a raffle of small prizes.
Integrity Week at UDEM is
planned to be held each year to
promote Academic Integrity.
http://www.udem.edu.mx/Esp/NoticiasEventos/Pages/Eventos/2015/abril/semana-de-la-integridad-valoresudem.aspx

From the Director

Teaching the Conflict
All too frequently, we hear cheating in
school discussed as if it were only a matter
of choosing between right and wrong, with
too little acknowledgement that often,
decisions appear as a choice between right
and right or wrong and wrong. When a
friend asks for help on a test or paper or
homework, it is understandable, even if
misguided, for students to think that
helping their friend is right whereas getting
their friend into trouble would be wrong.
For teachers, too, discouraging a struggling
student by calling them out on cheating can
seem wrong whereas giving a break can
seem right (or kind), at least in the short
term.
For students and teachers, making good
decisions requires understanding and
learning to address the complexity of the
issues involved in cheating. Learning to
make good decisions requires opportunities
and guidance in evaluating options when
there are arguments to be made on both
sides. Knowing whats right and doing it is
useful in the clear cut cases, but only by
acknowledging more complicated integrity
issues in their full complexity can students
and teachers be prepared to address them
and make the most ethical choice.

~Teddi Fishman

Harvard College Hosts Honor Code Panel

By: Noah J. Delwiche

Harvard Crimson

fellowsthis summer, according to a handout distributed at

4/28/2015 the event. The full membership will be announced in August.

Just months away from rolling out its first-ever honor code, the

The event, which attracted more than 50 attendees, featured

two undergraduate panelists, Carlton E. I. Christian 17 and
College hosted an event Monday where panelists addressed
Olivia Z. Zhu 15, as well as Chemistry professor Eric N.
questions about the potential efficacy of the code as well as
concerns about the impending affirmation of integrity mandate. Jacobsen and Ann Marie E. Sousa, an administrator in the
Office of Undergraduate Education. All but Christian are
Several of the undergraduate members of the Honor Council, the members of the Academic Integrity Committee, which designed
the Honor Code that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved
student-faculty body that will hear cases of academic integrity
starting next fall, attended the event as audience members. Dean last May and will go into effect next semester
of the College Rakesh Khurana will appoint the remaining
Full Article: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/4/28/honormembers of the Councilfaculty, administrators, and teaching
code-event-panel/

Announcements

Upcoming Events!
Plagiarism Across Europe
and Beyond 2015
University of Brno
Brno, Czech Republic
June 10-12, 2015
http:/plagiarism.cz/

2015 Higher Education

Teaching & Learning:
Learning Without Borders
September 22 24
Minneapolis, MN
https://www.hetl.org/2015-hetl-pstlconference/
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Technological Advances
Create More Opportunities
for Academic Dishonesty
Allison Evans
4/22/2015

KStateCollegian.com

There are many different ways for

students to cheat both in and out of
the classroom. As technology
advances, so do the opportunities for
academic dishonesty. With a simple
Google search, a person can find
information on printing a
personalized cheat-sheet water
bottle label, ordering wireless ear
buds for discreet communication,
getting writing pens with hidden
cameras and much more. There are
even cell phone apps created
specifically to help students cheat.
K-State is no exception to the
problem. Each year, dozens (if not
hundreds) of cases of academic
dishonesty are reported to the
universitys Honor and Integrity
System. During the 2013-14 school
year between the months of August
and July, there were 197 cases of
Honor Code violations, according to
the annual Honor and Integrity
System Report. These violations
included unauthorized collaboration
and plagiarism, which are clear
violations of the Honor Code.
Cheating can be done without the
assistance of electronic devices, and
yet as technology is becoming
commonplace in the classroom, it is
becoming easier for students to tap
into the world of academic
dishonesty
http://www.kstatecollegian.com/2015/04
/22/technological-advances-create-moreopportunities-for-academic-dishonesty/

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High School Teachers

Sought to Join Achieving
with Integrity Project
David Wangaard
4/28/2015

EthicsEd.org

The School for Ethical Education

(SEE) is recruiting volunteer high

school English and social studies
teachers to participate in the
Achieving with Integrity (AwI)
project. AwI teachers will integrate
lessons to strengthen student moral
functioning within their existing class
lessons.
The project will include on-line
professional development (summer
2015) to guide the creation of lesson
plans to be integrated into high
school English or social studies
classes (fall 2015). Participating
teachers will need to gain approval
and access for participating students
to complete three on-line Survey
Monkey surveys - one prior to lesson
instruction, one immediately after the
core lessons are completed (fall
2015) and a final survey after three
supplemental lessons are taught
during the year (winter/spring 2016).
For more information and to view a
project application, teachers are
invited to visit SEEs home page at
www.ethicsed.org.

Welcome New
Members April 2015!
University of Tasmania

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