Building Honor in Academics: Case Studies in Academic Integrity

242 Pages·2023·4.164 MB·English

by  Valerie P. Denney, Camilla J. Roberts

Building Honor
in Academics

Building Honor
in Academics
Case Studies in 
Academic Integrity
Valerie P. Denney
Camilla J. Roberts
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Names: Denney, Valerie, author. | Roberts, Camilla, author.
Title: Building honor in academics : case studies in academic integrity /
Valerie Denney, Camilla Roberts.
Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : Jossey-Bass, 2023. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022051892 (print) | LCCN 2022051893 (ebook) | ISBN
9781119880547 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119880554 (adobe pdf) | ISBN
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Subjects: LCSH: Education, Higher—Moral and ethical aspects—Case studies.
| Cheating (Education)—Case studies.
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COVER DESIGN: PAUL MCCARTHY
Contents
Introduction vii
Chapter 1 Honesty 1
Chapter 2 Trust 33
Chapter 3 Fairness 67
Chapter 4 Respect 99
Chapter 5 Responsibility 123
Chapter 6 Courage 153
Appendix A Alphabetical List of Case Studies Mapped
to the Fundamental Values 181
Appendix B Alphabetical List of Case Studies Mapped
to Audience 189
Appendix C Case Studies by Author 197
Appendix D Case Studies by Country of Origin 205
Index 215 
v

Introduction
F
rom the early beginnings of the Center for Academic Integrity,
now the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI), the
leadership and membership of the group strived to not only talk
about or support academic integrity, but promote integrity and give insti-
tutions tools to create a culture of integrity on their own campuses. The
Fundamental Values Project was designed to do just that.
According to Sally Cole, the center’s first executive director from
1995 to 1999, the purpose of the original Fundamental Values was:
. . . to identify and affirm the conditions under which student honesty would
flourish. And we had the wisdom to recognize that it was an issue with cam-
pus climate that we were talking about. It was not just the student behavior
but the environment/the settings in which a student decides to cheat or not to
cheat. (Gallant, 2022)
After the work of Elizabeth Kiss, Jim Larimore, Gary Pavela, Don
McCabe, Bill Kibler, Pat Drinan, Mary Olson, and Sally Cole, the first
edition of the Fundamental Values was published in 1999 with the fol-
lowing five values: honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. In
recognition of the Center’s 20th anniversary in 2014, the document was
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reviewed in a second edition and the sixth value of courage was added.
In 2021, a third edition was released, maintaining the same six values;
however, attempting to connect the values to experiences global col-
leagues see daily at their institutions and with their students.
It is from this attempt to connect the values to the daily work that the
idea of this case study book flourished. Leaders of ICAI saw a request
and a need to be able to see examples of the fundamental values at work
to help spur and continue conversations about academic integrity while
also using these discussions as a training mechanism across the insti-
tution. We hope that the case studies found in Building Honor in Aca-
demics, organized by the six fundamental values of academic integrity,
do just that. May they be talking points for a faculty meeting, training
exercises for an honor council, or an ethical discussion in a classroom
environment.
The mission of ICAI is to “cultivate integrity and academic commu-
nities throughout the world to promote ethical institutions and socie-
ties” and so throughout that mission the goal is to build the culture of
academic integrity. We want to educate individuals; we want to educate
our students; we want to educate our faculty. To have a commitment to
academic integrity is to have a commitment to those values. We ask our
students at our institutions to have these values, our faculty members to
have these values, but also our institutions must maintain these values
so our scholarly communities can flourish. Building Honor in Academ-
ics strives to help explore what it really means to live the fundamental
values. The following is a description of the six fundamental values: hon-
esty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage.
Honesty
Honesty forms the indispensable foundation of integrity and is a pre-
requisite for full realization of trust, fairness, respect, and responsibil-
ity. Honesty can be seen as a prerequisite to realize all the other values.
The ways we think about being honest is being truthful, giving credit to
others, and promoting a culture in which we give credit to others. We
keep our promises, and we provide factual evidence for our statements.
Honesty is absolutely critical for both faculty and administrators model,
not only in our words and what happens in our class in the classroom,