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JUNE 2012

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

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ICAI Web 2.0
Usually, this column is an opportunity for me to share issues that we are working on here at the Center, but this month is different. This month, I have the pleasure of directing your attention to the brand new ICAI website, redesigned for us by Paula Sullivan and updated by Aaron Monson, our director of membership services. You can find the new website by typing in the usual address: AcademicIntegrity.org. The hallmark of web 2.0 is its ability to be responsive, adaptive, and participatory, and to do that, we need your help. We invite you to send us your best resources and sharable content, and perhaps most importantly, we need to know what else youd like to see to make the ICAI site as helpful as possible to our members and others just getting joining the academic integrity cause. Thanks to all of you who have already contributed, and please keep the suggestions coming!

UT Austin May Change Honor Code After Review

By: David Maly The Daily Texas 6/12/2012

The university may see changes to its honor code when President William
Powers, Jr. reviews a recently completed report on its effectiveness. UT officials created a University Honor Code Task Force this past spring in order to evaluate the effectiveness of UTs honor code and recommend any necessary changes. The task force is made up of faculty, students, and administration and is overseen by the Academic Integrity Committee, an organization that works to increase the visibility of the honor code and promote integrity on campus. Linda Golden, Honor Code Task Force chairwoman and professor of marketing administration, said the report was delivered to Powers last week, and what comes next will be up to him. Golden refused to release any details about the report or background on the task force. Adopted in 2004 by UT President Larry Faulkner, the current honor code reads as follows: The core values of the University of Texas at Austin are learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity, and responsibility. Each member of the university is expected to uphold these values through integrity, honesty, trust, fairness, and respect toward peers and community. Until recently, all UT students learned about the honor code during orientation. This year, officials sent out the honor code to students to read as part of their pre-orientation assignments. Michael Morton, journalism senior and president of the Senate of College Councils, said the main issue that led to the task force being created was lack of student knowledge about the honor code. The University has done surveys and gotten student opinion on the matter, and the fact is that not a lot of students know what our honor code is or that we even have one, he said.

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/university/2012/06/12/ut-maychange-honor-code-after-powers-review UNC Board Members Question Fraud Response

~Teddi Fishman

These findings are a kick in the gut to those of us who take great By: Gregory Childress The Herald-Sun 05/08/2012 pride in what we do here, Thorp said. The department has been under a cloud in the wake of a university report released last niversity of North Carolina officials on Thursday outlined steps month that found evidence of serious and fraudulent irregularities in more than 50 classes taught from summer 2007 through that the university has taken to prevent academic fraud scandals, summer 2009. such as the one that has enveloped the universitys Department of African and Afro-American Studies (note: see ETHOS, May 2012 for In addition, the report found evidence of unauthorized grade recap, or visit http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/11090438/). changes and forgery. Board members had questions about why it took the university so long to detect the fraud and whether the Speaking to the UNC Board of Trustees, UNC Chancellor Holden university had proper checks and balances in place during the time Thorp said the discoveries in the department have been at painful they occurred. Complete article: odds with the universitys mission and commitment to academic

integrity.

http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/18719002/article-UNC-boardmembers-question-fraud-response

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Biometrics Helping to Block, Catch Cheaters

By: Gale Rose PrattTribune.com 06/6/2012

ICAIS NEW WEBSITE GOES LIVE!

After several months of development (and several years of trying to get the project off the ground), ICAI is pleased to announce that its new website officially launched this month! Designer Paula Sullivan worked tirelessly for three months to bring the more user-friendly and aesthetically pleasing site to fruition and we are thrilled with the results! Featured are interactive slideshows, more efficient and streamlined organization for members resources, and a much easier registration and renewal process for memberships and our conference. We encourage you to browse the new site, play with the features, and send us your feedback while we continue to add resources and tweak content. While the homepage will keep the same URL, please be aware that links you may have to the old website may no longer be active.

High technology has allowed the development of Biometric www.academicintegrity.org/icai/events-1.php program ___________________________________ Signature-ID, a a studentthat can recognize when has someone ICAIs 20th Anniversary Conference: else take their tests and do their nfluencing ulture, dvancing ntegrity homework.

Cheaters beware.

November 2-4, 2012 Princeton, New Jersey Early Bird Registration Coming Soon!

The six Kansas community colleges in the EduKan consortium have added BioSig-ID to their online teaching programs to ensure that students are actually doing the work they turn in through the online EduKan program, said Pratt Community College VP for Instruction Jim Stratford. The new program would help maintain the integrity of the students and EduKan for all six colleges. From the EduKan sites, the BioSig-ID program can detect movements of the mouse, stylus, or touchpad to positively identify students. It can also compare IP addresses, the date, time, and even the locations of the student at the time they were taking their tests. Students in EduKan have to provide specific information and recognizable test patterns before they can enroll in classes. Its built into the course and its required for the course, Stratford said. We have to maintain our academic integrity. Unfortunately, some students try to take shortcuts and find ways to cheat. http://www.pratttribune.com/features/x65 5471843/Biometrics-helping-to-blockcatch-cheaters Editors Note: BioSig-ID President and CEO Jeff Maynard and EduKan CEO Dr. Mark Sarver will be present at ICAIs annual conference in November to showcase their research and findings. We are looking forward to their contributions!

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Tonya Schmidt, UW Madison Bridie Farah, Masdar Institute, Dubai Paula Sullivan, ICAI Website Design

Ethos Staff:
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Teddi Fishman: Executive Editor

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