Academic Integrity
A New Look at Law, Policy and Practice
Presented by:
The University Faculty Senate and The State University of New York
March 23-24, 2006
Best Western Sovereign Hotel
Albany, NY
Thursday, March 23, 2006
12:30pm Registration
1:45pm Welcome
Carl Wiezalis, President, University Faculty Senate
SUNY Chancellor John Ryan
Janet Nepkie, Chair – University Faculty Senate
Undergraduate Academic Programs and Policies Committee
2:00pm Copyright and Academic Integrity: The BIG Picture
Kenneth Crews, Samuel R. Rosen II Professor in the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis and in the IU School of Library and Information Science
§ Plagiarism, copyright ownership and students, faculty, staff and the university
§ Academic Integrity, institutional policy and related legal issues (ex. copyright, library issues, ownership of student, staff and faculty works of authorship, plagiarism, privacy laws, electronic transmission of protected works, etc).
5:00pm Reception, Vendors and Poster Session
Turning Plagiarism as a Learning Moment: Integrating Turnitin in a First Year Nursing Lecture Course – Ann Sullivan, Librarian – Sullivan County Community College
6:00pm Dinner
Gary Pavela, Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development at the University of Maryland - College Park
Academic Integrity Policy: Is It a New Day for Honor Codes?
§ Recent data on the extent of college student cheating and the effectiveness of measures to combat it.
§ Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of traditional honor codes.
§ Overview of the "modified honor code" concept as implemented at the University of Maryland, the University of Colorado, and the University of California at Davis, among others.
Friday, March 24, 2006
8:00am Continental Breakfast
9:00am Presentations of papers
§ Academic Ethics and Integrity for the Criminal Justice Student, Steven V. Gilbert, Assistant Professor Criminal Investigations, Department of Public Service – SUNY Canton
§ Changing Cultures: Building a Campus Academic Integrity Policy, Gerald Benjamin, Dean, Liberal Arts and Sciences – SUNY New Paltz and Richard Kelder, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning – SUNY New Paltz
§ Strategies for Obtaining Meaningful Student Responses in Educational Assignments Required in Findings on Academic Dishonesty, Dr. Steve Tyrell, Vice President for Student Affairs – Alfred State College
§ Online Research and Teaching: A New Era for Academic Integrity, Al Lawrence, Linzi Kemp & Kim Hewitt, Assistant Professors, Academic Coordinators and Academic Review Committee – Center for Distance Learning Empire State College
§ Wade Robison, Ezra A. Hale Chair in Applied Ethics - Rochester Institute of Technology
§ Buying A’s and Counting FTE’s: Plagiarism, Consumerism, and the Economics of Higher Education, Michael Murphy, Visiting Assistant Professor of English – SUNY Oswego
§ Plagiarism, Publishing and the Academy, Daniel Harms, Coordinator of Instruction Librarian – SUNY Cortland
§ Integrity, Academics and Relationship Boundaries, Leslie A. McCulloch, Assistant Professor, Counselor Education and Korni Swaroop Kumar, Associate Professor and Chair, Criminal Justice – SUNY Brockport
§ Promoting Academic Integrity on Campus: “ A Personal Code of Values and Academic Integrity” David Bozak, Associate Dean, SUNY Oswego
10:30am Academic integrity and plagiarism in today’s academy
Keynote Speaker:
Donald L. McCabe, Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers University
§ Academic Integrity – Student attitudes and engagement.
§ The impact of the Internet.
§ Faculty perspectives and response.
§ Strategies that seem to matter.
§ Fall 2005 – a new look.
§ The Center for Academic Integrity.
12:00pm Buffet Lunch