20th AnniversaryA Projects Update

5 Main Projects

1. Accreditation & Integrity

2. Fundamental Values: Revisiting & Revising

3. Regional Consortium Development

4. Academic Integrity Reader

5. AIRS – Academic Integrity Rating System

Accreditation: Team

• Lead: Mohamed Nagib Abou-Zeid

• Team: Pam Law, Don McCabe, Teddi Fishman, Jim Lancaster, Tony Feghali, Cynthia Beers, Jo Hinchliffe, Lisa Haas, Janet L. S. Moore, Joseph W. Gordon

Accreditation: Purpose

Integrity has been included in almost all standards used by regional and professional accrediting bodies.

However, there is a sense that such standards and their practices do not adequately assess nor support academic

integrity values as should be.

Accreditation: Objectives

Define areas relevant to integrity in accreditation standards that are worth reconsideration.

Seek means for establishing better links between ICAI and the accrediting agencies.

Provide advice to member institutions as to how to genuinely meet accreditation standards on campus.

Accreditation: Update

• Some feedback came from the group

• ICAI representatives presenting at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) conference in January• Focus will be on:

• Fostering Academic Integrity in Higher Education• Accreditation and Academic Integrity: What is still missing?• Why is Academic Honesty becoming an International Concern?

• Need your regional views on Integrity-Accreditation

• More work needs to be carried out from the group

Fundamental Values: Team

• Lead: Pam Law

• Team: Elizabeth Kiss, Donald McCabe, Teddi Fishman, Karen Clifford

Fundamental Values: Update

• Working sessions have been held throughout the conference and we’ll hear an update from them tomorrow during the closing brunch at 11:30 a.m.!

Regional Consortium: Team

• Lead: Jim Lee

Regional Consortium: Update

• Ontario region is strong and viable – they have named themselves (Academic Integrity Council of Ontario, AICO) and have official status with the Ontario Council of Universities

• Next Step? Produce a “Creating a Regional Consortium” Toolkit

AI Reader: Team

• Lead: Tricia Bertram Gallant

• Guiding Team: Brad Zakarin, D.B. Christian, Art Wilson, Karen Clifford, Leah Bryant, Patricia Mahaffey, Christine Killoran

• Article Reviewers: Breea Bacon, Karen Clifford, Paula Gabbert, Barbara Grano, Danielle Istl, Anne Jimenez, CharlinJones, Charlie Myers, Esrold Nurse, Sandi Rhoten, Judy Sheppler, Mark Sheldon, Simon, Fred Van Horn, David Wangaard, Art Wilson, Tim Terpstra, Jennifer Jensen, Shawn Peoples, Neil Morpeth, Katrina Hawes, Nancy Westrup

AI Reader: Purpose

• Historical account of the ICAI and the academic integrity movement

• Resource for academic integrity scholars and practitioners

• Resource for faculty who teach ethics

• Resource for students who have to do research on academic integrity or academic ethics

AI Reader: Contents

• ICAI: Past, Present & Future• Based on interviews with current and past ICAI leadership

• AI Research & Writings (since 1992)• Most influential articles and chapters

• Grouped by theme with thematic introduction • Books & Reports• Dissertations & Theses

AI Reader: Our Progress

• Conducted interviews with 11 past ICAI leaders• Solicited nominations for articles/book chapters to

include in Reader and conducted a search on scholar.google.ca • Volunteer Guiding Team reviewed and narrowed the list to

95• 21 Volunteer Reviewers read and evaluated at least 10

articles/chapters each, resulting in 2-3 evaluations per piece• Narrowed the list to 42, by those which received at least a

4/5 evaluation

AI Reader : To Be Done

• Interviews• Need to conduct more• Need to transcribe• Need to write narrative

• Articles/Chapters• Need to group by theme and write thematic introductions• Need to determine if reprinting or just listing

Academic Integrity Rating System (AIRS): Team

• Lead: Tricia Bertram Gallant & Pat Drinan

• Guiding Team: Thomas Tomasi, James Earl Orr, Shahla Akbari,

• Draft Reviewers: Eloise Knowlton, Cecilia Wilson, Drew Canham, Emilye Mobley

• Consultants: Judy Walton & Julian Dautremont-Smith (AASHE)

AIRS: Influences

• AASHE’s STARS

• ICAI’s Academic Integrity Assessment Guide (funded by the Templeton Foundation).

• identify benchmarks for institutionalizing academic integrity on campus

• reward campuses for their efforts to curb cheating and empower academic integrity

• allow colleges and universities to quickly compare themselves to their peer institutions

• publicize for interested stakeholders the efforts of campuses to curb cheating and empower academic integrity

• stimulate and provide data for the international conversation on academic integrity

AIRS Update: Purpose

• provides measurements to assess and rank levels of academic integrity institutionalization• compare selves to other institutions • benchmark own progress and make plans for change.

• measurements:• reflect a “movement’ toward institutionalization• Are “relevant and meaningful for diverse institutions”• “prioritize performance over strategy when possible”• are “objective, measurable, and actionable”

• user friendly • empowering• keeps academic integrity on the campus radar • provides prompts to feasible improvements that can be viable and enduring

AIRS: The System

• Guiding Team reviewed STARS, research and AI Assessment Guide to develop draft criteria & rankings

• We have a simple and detailed self-scoring option on 10 criteria:

• Draft was reviewed and commented on by 5 reviewers

AIRS: Our Progress

Policies/procedures Academic integrity bodies

Office & personnel Student organizationStudent education & outreach Faculty & staff education Reporting out to the community Process evaluationCampus data collection

• We need 5-6 campuses willing to pilot AIRS over the next 8 months

• Revisions based on the pilot results

• Release Version 1.0 in 2012

AIRS: Still to Do

In addition…..

A new student organization

Introducing the

International Academic Integrity Matters Student

Organization (IAIMSO)

What You Can Do…..

Join the Accreditation & Integrity team and/or

Research your accreditation agency

CONTACT:

Mohamed Nagib Abou-Zeidmnagiba@aucegypt.edu

Join the Fundamental Values teamto help revisit, revise, & revitalize the

document

CONTACT:

Teddi Fishmantfishman@clemson.edu

What You Can Do…..

Join the Regional Consortium Team

create a “Regional Consortium Toolkit” and/or

start a regional consortium in your area.

CONTACT:

Jim Leejim.lee@queensu.ca

What You Can Do…..

Join the Academic Integrity Reader Team

transcribe an interviewand/or

use your skills to help in another way!

CONTACT:

Tricia Bertram Gallanttbg@ucsd.edu

What You Can Do…..

Join the AIRS Team

Pilot AIRS on your campus this year!!!

CONTACT:

Tricia Bertram Gallanttbg@ucsd.edu

What You Can Do…..

Start an IAIMSO Chapterat your school, college or university!

CONTACT:

Tricia Bertram Gallant

tbg@ucsd.edu

What You Can Do…..

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY!!!!