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There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.

APRIL 2013

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

Quote of the Month

Tom Peters

From the Director

Its springtime, when students thoughts inevitably turn to . . . plagiarism? We hope not, but with final papers and presentations looming, its no surprise that often, incidents of academic misconduct increase just as the semester draws to a close. Even as the semester begins to wind down, there are some steps that can be taken to make cheating less likely in the final, critical weeks ahead. Requiring stepped or scaffolded assignments such as outlines and rough drafts can help reduce the last-minute panic that occasions many instances of end-of-term plagiarism. Likewise, a brief class session on standards and formatting for citations can serve as a reminder of instructor expectations before problems arise. A recap of resources like writing labs and tutoring centers can also be helpful, along with a list of online resources for when questions pop up during late-night writing marathons. Lastly, dont forget to let students know that you care about the integrity of academic work and that it is in their interests to care about it as well. The effort spent clarifying your expectations, identifying resources, and communicating the extent to which academic integrity matters in your classroom might not stave off every attempt at cheating, but it may well make a difference particularly in cases where students might otherwise have been careless with citation. Prevention > punishment, any day, but especially in the spring.

B-Schools Use Turnitin Software to Crack Down on Plagiarism

By: Erin Zlomek Bloomberg Businessweek 04/18/13

For $29.99, an MBA applicant can purchase an admissions essay that got
someone else accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or London Business School from the website Wordprom. If that person is daring, she might even try to pass parts of the essay off as her own. Cheating has generally been rampant at B-schools. Rutgers Business School professor Don McCabe surveyed 5,000 graduate students between 2002 and 2004 and found that MBA students cheated more than their nonbusiness peers. Recycled essays are the biggest problem we see, says Carrie Marcinkevage, managing director of the MBA program at Pennsylvania State Universitys Smeal College of Business. Yet its becoming harder to fool admissions staff as a growing number of schools deploy plagiarism detection software. Penn States Smeal rejected 40 applicants this year for plagiarizing their admissions essays and 85 candidates since 2010, when it started using Turnitin, software long used in college classrooms to sniff out cribbed research papers. Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business started using the program this school year and rejected one applicant. The University of California at Los Angeless Anderson School of Management has rejected about 115 candidates since 2011 using the software. The number of MBA admissions offices using Turnitin has more than doubled over the past year, to 15, and is likely to rise further now that the tool is being marketed as an add-on to a widely used software suite for processing applications. Weve had very well-known schools sign on, says Chris Harrick, a vice president of marketing at iParadigms, the Oakland (Calif.) company that makes the software. Turnitin keeps its client roster private, and most business schools dont disclose that they are using the service. Among those that do, Penn State is the only one that has notified suspected plagiarizers. All others were rejected without explanation.

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By: Lacey Nemergut

Bentley Student Academic Integrity Society Receives Honors this organization we will work with other schools that hope to develop
The Bentley Vanguard 04/09/2013 an Academic Integrity Society on their campus.
The recognition of IAIMSO now allows Bentley representatives from AIS to attend national and international meetings and work to bring effective speakers to the Bentley campus who actively promote academic integrity in the workplace and college communities. Its the highest formlike an honor societythats in existence right now, said Snedeker when describing the significance of the recognition. Bentley is one of the first few schools to join the organization. We wanted to put academic integrity in the forefront of domestic and international schools.
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The Bentley University Student Academic Integrity Society (AIS),

advised by Ellen Snedeker, academic integrity coordinator, has recently been honored with the acceptance into the International Academic Integrity Matters Student Organization (IAIMSO). The recognition aligns Bentley with the organizations values to promote honesty, trustworthiness, respect, responsibility and fairness in students academic work. Recently, the society has seen a significant increase in membership, growing from 10 to 30 dedicated members over this past year. We are very excited about becoming a member of this organization, said junior president-elect Maureen Curatolo. As the poster school for

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6APCEI! Sydney, Australia October 2013

Will UNCs Academic Integrity Be Restored?

WTVD ABC Local 04/02/2013

After scandal put the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill's academics under scrutiny in recent years, the school is now facing review. Following months of investigations, an accreditation team will be on UNC's campus until Friday to see if academic integrity at the university has been restored. If it hasn't, UNC could be put on probation or even get its accreditation taken away. The university's problems began in 2010 when the school announced it was looking into allegations of plagiarism, tutors who violated rules, faculty who failed to provide oversight, alleged unethical conduct by an assistant coach, and allegations that student-athletes got perks from professional sports agents. In January, the school was put on notice with a strongly worded letter. It advised UNC to take immediate actions to pull itself into compliance accreditation standards. The notice stemmed from an investigation that reported the academic fraud was confined to the school's Department of African and AfroAmerican Studies and were the result of wrongdoing by the former chairman and a department administrator for over more than a decade. The probe was launched after the disclosure of the academic transcript of former UNCChapel Hill football star and basketball player Julius Peppers. Peppers, who left the university in 2002 to enter the NFL, earned Bs or better in African studies classes but poor grades in many of his other classes. An earlier probe found irregularities in the department dating from 2007.

The 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity

6APCEI is being hosted by Macquarie University, and will be held in Sydney (Australia) on 2-4 October, 2013. The overarching theme of 6APCEI is From Policy to Practice -- Bridging the Gap. Almost all institutions in the HE sector have developed policies and procedures to encourage educational/academic honesty/integrity under some name or other. These policies are, of necessity, very general in nature, and their interpretation and implementation -the practical aspects -- is typically left to academics and administrators at different levels, starting from tutors and teaching assistants to Faculty Deans and members of relevant university level committees. The translation of the policies to practice is rarely obvious, and not necessarily uniform across different disciplines. The keynote speaker for 6APCEI will be International Center for Academic Integrity founding president and the "father" of academic integrity research, Dr. Donald McCabe of Rutgers University. Full details can be found here: http://web.science.mq.edu.au/conference s/6apcei/
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UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp, who later announced he was stepping down following the scandal at the school, said he and other administrators took it for granted that

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Institutional Members NYU Stern School of Business John Jay College of Criminal Justice Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning Individual Members Patricia Hyland, Foothill College Peggy Ingram, Life University Jose Roberto Goldim, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil

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Ethos Staff: Aaron Monson: Writer / Editor Teddi Fishman: Executive Editor