As a personal value, academic integrity involves doing work in an honest, ethical, and honorable way, and not attempting to misrepresent oneself or one's work in others. Saint Anselm College expects its students to develop and exemplify this value throughout their four years of study. Academic integrity is everyone's responsibility--students need to be honorable about the work they produce, while faculty need to be honest and transparent with their assignments and grading. When all students and faculty exhibit academic integrity, it fosters a climate of mutual trust and respect among them. Failing to maintain academic integrity causes harm to the community in several ways:
As a set of behaviors, academic integrity can be demonstrated by adhering to a few simple rules when producing papers or presentations. Charles Lipson outlines three principles that all students should follow:
Works Cited
Lipson, Charles. Doing Honest Work in College. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Print.
The most obvious violation of academic integrity involves plagiarizing the work of others, whether they are students, scholars, or anonymous authors on the Internet. Plagiarism will be discussed at length in this tutorial. But academic dishonesty comes in a variety of other forms, including the following:
Many colleges and universities frame this issue in terms of "academic dishonesty." From that point of view, the institution focuses on the acts and behaviors that may result in disciplinary action by the administration.
Saint Anselm College's policy on academic honesty does lay out examples of academic misconduct. However, rather than dwelling on what students shouldn't do, the college wants to encourage them to learn skills (such as effective note taking and paraphrasing) that will help them complete their work with integrity. To this end, all freshman students receive instruction on how and when to quote, paraphrase, and document sources during their English classes. This outline tutorial will also provide many tips and strategies for avoiding plagiarism, a crime that many students commit by accident due to not understanding the rules.
For more information on Academic Integrity at Saint Anselm College, including academic integrity procedures and student appeal process, select the link to the current Catalogue.
At Saint Anselm College, guided by our Catholic & Benedictine traditions, we value treating everyone with respect as we believe each person is unique in the eyes of God. Our community of students, faculty, staff, and administrators collaborated within a framework or learning and faith. Our environment fosters critical thinking and ethical behavior. The community expects adherence to principles of honesty, fairness, equity, mutual respect, and accountability, Violating these standards undermines learning, stifles innovations, and impedes the exchange of ideas. Therefore, we are steadfast in our commitment to abstain from academic dishonesty and to discourage it in others. We prioritize academic integrity.
Every member of the College community is required to understand, uphold, and comply with the College's Academic Integrity policy. This duty encompasses disclosing any knowledge or suspicion of breaches of this policy to the relevant faculty member or to the appropriate Class Dean. Faculty must include reference to their field, course, or assignments, Students are required to know and understand how the College Academic Integrity policy applies in each of the course they take.
Students should be prepared -- up to one month beyond the due date of an assessment to submit all notes, drafts, and source information which might be requested by an instructor, chairperson, or committee investigating the authenticity of that work.
Violations of the Academic Integrity Policy include, but are not limited to, the following: