Ethics and Academic Integrity

This document is available at:  http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/cfccaug03.html

Presented at Central Florida Community College – August 21, 2003

Dr. Nancy A. Stanlick

Assistant Professor

Department of Philosophy

University of Central Florida

 

 
  1. The Problem of Academic Dishonesty
  2. Plagiarism and Cheating – see http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/FCTLsummer2003.ppt
  3. Causes –
    1. higher level
    2. lower level
  4. Solutions – higher level and lower level
    1. Competition vs. Cooperation
    2. Turnitin.com
  5. Honor Codes and Modified Honor Codes
  6. Some Honor Codes/Policies and resources for faculty and students
    1. Dalhousie (Canada) 

                                              i.     Univ. Policy  http://plagiarism.dal.ca/policies/index.html

                                            ii.     Student Resources:  http://plagiarism.dal.ca/student/index.html

                                          iii.     Faculty Resources:  http://plagiarism.dal.ca/faculty/index.html

    1. University of Virginia

                                              i.     Procedures: http://www.virginia.edu/honor/procedures.html

                                            ii.     The “Honor Men” Poem:  http://www.virginia.edu/honor/intro/honormen.html

    1. Stanford University

                                              i.     Honor Code:  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/vpsa/judicialaffairs/guiding/honorcode.htm

                                            ii.     Sources (information on avoiding plagiarism):  http://www.stanford.edu/dept/vpsa/judicialaffairs/students/plagiarism.sources.htm

    1. University of Central Florida

                                              i.     UCF’s Golden Rule (Modified Honor Code):  http://www.goldenrule.sdes.ucf.edu/

                                            ii.     UCF’s incident report form:  http://www.goldenrule.sdes.ucf.edu/cgiform.html

                                          iii.     UCF’s Office of Student Conduct/Department of Philosophy Seminar in Academic Integrity

1.     July 2003 meeting of the course:  http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/oscethicsjul03.html

2.     March 2003 CFCC Presentation (PowerPoint):  http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~stanlick/cfccpresfac.ppt

  1. The Center for Academic Integrity
    1. http://www.academicintegrity.org/links.asp

                                              i.     includes links to Ethics Updates and works on character education