English Language Institute: Academic Integrity

“Academic integrity is a fundamental cornerstone of any academic community. In many ways, the perceptions about the quality of an institution and the value of its degrees are based on the belief that graduates earned their diploma honestly and that faculty certified that graduates have knowledge and skills learned through rigorous work guided by high standards of excellence.  Inherent in such an article of faith is a belief that a student’s work was honest and that each one did it [him/herself].”

“Fostering Academic Integrity at Rutgers.”  Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Campus. http://ctaar.rutgers.edu/integrity/faculty.html [link no longer working]

• Stanford University, March 2016 – 20% of freshmen in a large introductory survey course are caught cheating on assignments and exams¹

• Univ. of California, Berkeley, Fall 2013 – a Computer Science professor reports widespread cheating in one of his courses²

• Dartmouth University, Fall 2014 – 43 students are implicated in cheating on an exam in a religion class³

¹ Yu, B. (2015). Allegations of cheating by large number of students rocks
        Stanford campus. Retrieved from http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com.

² Zhou, M. (2013, August 6). Details emerge about cheating incident in Computer Science course. The Daily Californian. Retrieved from http://www.dailycal.org.

³ Ramaiah, P. (2014, November 12). Dozens of students linked to cheating in religion class. The Dartmouth. Retrieved from http://thedartmouth.com.