Pledge Allegiance to Diogenes In “Is Diogenes on your Campus?” Karen Bleeker states that Community colleges must prize integrity to reinforce the behaviors of the honest students. First of all, studies shows that this widespread problem and one that may be accelerating. Both objective studies of academic dishonesty and anecdotal evidence from professors and administrators seem to show that students are cheating more often that in the past. If this continues, not only will the integrity of the academic process be threatened, but we will be raising a generation of students who think such behavior is normal. In addition, allowing such cheating to continue hurts and angers honest students. They choose not to cheat for a variety
Academic dishonesty undermines the purpose of graduate school because it devalues the student’s education and also hurts the reputation of the school. When a student devalues their education it shows that the student values a grade more than they value the lessons they are learning. In
Academic integrity is the code of academic conduct that is set forth by educational institutions. It is the catalyst for the mission of most institutions. The expectation is that students will be honest and responsible as it pertains to academia. It defines the academic rigor in research and academic publishing and gives value to the institution (Spain & Robes, 2011). Academic integrity also applies to the way that an individual behaves both personally and professionally, and is a true measure to the worth of the degree that is earned. This standard of behavior applies to both students and faculty. In short this is just thief of
Multiple studies have found that students are spending less time on their academic studies leading to a decrease in education and an increase in temptation of academic dishonesty. Cheating has been prevalent since mankind existed, but writer William Chace gives his outlook on the issue in his article, “A Question of Honor”. Chace is able to use adequate reasoning to engage the reader in an article that depicts perspectives from every angle. Included within the article are a sense of sympathy, through explanations and even a proposed solution of how to end academic dishonesty.
If a college campus harbors an environent where cheating is seen as acceptable and an activity many people participate in, even students with correct morals and no desire to cheat themselves are less likely to report fellow students for unsavory behavior. This can also go a step further and that same student who failed to confront a peer for cheating, may give in to the school’s atmosphere and start cheating themselves. This makes them all the less likely to report other students for fear of appearing hypocritical and/or being reported themselves. A study on honor code effectiveness was completed by Sally Sledge and Pam Pringle at a small public university (Source E). Their results showed that only 8% of students would report a fellow student for cheating. Even more surprisingly, 40% of students anonymously stated that they had “violated the honor code and not been caught”. This points to a very cheater-friendly attitude at this particular school and shows that the honor system is not very effective in this
Rules governing academic integrity among students and schools is a practice deeply entrenched in the American education system and that of those around the world. Likely beginning at the University of Virginia in the United States during 1842 as a way to discourage cheating, dishonesty, and plagiarism, it soon spread throughout the nation. Today, the overwhelming majority of schools in the US, from elementary to collegiate, have their own form of a honor code. Among these schools is Port Charlotte High School, PCHS abbreviated, whose own code of conduct is based heavily on students being educated about the effects that their cheating will have on their academic future and punishing those who are discovered to have cheated in any form. So far, these particular academic regulations have proven successful and because of this, the charge put forward by the school should continue to be maintained. Revising the Code of Conduct into a peer-enforced system creates is statistically inefficient, hostilities between students, and eliminating the honor code would easily produce a school where cheating reigns free.
In the short four and a half years I have spent as a part of the Marist student body, learning their habits, celebrating their triumphs and considering their concerns, I have noticed a problem requiring immediate action, a silent plague sweeping our school that needs to be addressed to avoid imminent catastrophe. Across all subjects, from middle school theology classes to Advanced Placement arithmetic courses, the practice of cheating runs rampant and unchecked at our school. Popular cheating tactics include plagiarizing, using unauthorized outside sources and outright copying another student’s answers during a test, but exceptionally creative Marist students have explored less conventional strategies, such as the creation of secret codes to discretely convey messages.
Prior to completing the Academic Integrity Program, I thought academic integrity was as simple “not cheating.” I considered it a policy solely implemented to ensure that students learned the material. To me, cheating was mostly plagiarism, or trying to pass off someone else’s work as your own. It was not until I completed the program that I began to understand the long-term effects of cheating on the peers, the professor, and the institution. Now, I understand that cheating affects not just me, but also the other students in my courses and the university’s reputation. I also understand the reasoning behind the university’s strict policies regarding academic integrity violations, as they are in place to protect the student, the classmates,
C.S. Lewis, a famous author, writes that,“integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching”. Whether one is at home, or at a public place, honesty and integrity play crucial roles that can help define one’s character. The classroom is another place where honesty is significant and allows students to only earn what they truly deserve. Academic honesty is important, because it helps build good character, and students can avoid the various consequences of being dishonest. First and foremost, what exactly is academic honesty?
Why is it so hard make your own statement without plagiarizing? Many schools have considered the method of Honor Codes, a sworn contract or pledge of honor that gives students the opportunity to cultivate integrity. First proposed in the spring of 1998, it was a way to promote “an environment where students and faculty could live in complete trust of one another” (Vangelli) and “improve the academic integrity of the college” (Dirmeyer/Cartwright). As a student at Dysart High School, I believe that an honor code should be brought here and many other schools.
It is a fantasy and it starts with The Oath of Terces. There is a quick preface concerning an ibis bird that stands for a moment, but then crosses the River Nile. Then the story moves to an event happening at more or less, the same moment. An innocent man is being executed moments after inscribing a fateful secret on a piece of papyrus in hieroglyphics. The story then moves forward in time with Cass and Max-Ernest heading to a garage sale Larry and Wayne are having. Cass tells Max-Ernst that she hid the Jester's trunk in a pit behind the firehouse. They lug it out, open it, and discover that it contains a blue ring with a picture of an ibis and a scrap of linen. She discovers that they contain hieroglyphics meaning either "because what Ibis" or "because what Thoth".
drives me to a call to action, taking a drastic honest, new look at unethical
As a UD student, I am required to behave in a way that corresponds to the University’s Catholic, academic, and social code of conduct. This means that I am held to a high standard, academically and morally, in the ways that I behave in and out of the classroom. Furthermore, behaviors, such as plagiarism, that compromise my academic integrity, as well as illegal activities, such as underage drinking or fighting, are not acceptable as a member of the UD community because they directly contrast the University’s mission.
The principle of academic integrity stretches beyond the limits of a classroom. Good students are honest with themselves, their professors, their roommates, and their community.
Academic honesty is the key factor that allows students to be successful and scholars in life, and without academic honesty a student’s success is not feasible. Academic honesty is a student’s utmost high morals in the academic field. Academic dishonestly can be expressed in many ways from cheating on an history exam to copying someone's geometry homework. Consequences for academic dishonesty are contemporary and can be portrayed in a simple detention to rejection from your dream college. Academic honesty is quintessential to the moral and the overall success of the student.
Andrew Hang Chen, the Chief Development officer of WholeRen Education, an organization that offers academic counseling, proves the unsuccessful nature of students using these agencies with the estimated 8,000 students that have been expelled from United States universities since 2013. These 8,000 students have been expelled or placed on academic probation for poor grades, being caught cheating, or falsifying test scores, which is a mere reflection of how they were accepted into the school to begin with. “This is not what we want in our universities and colleges,” says Chen, “our higher education is being tainted by these statistics” (CNN). Students who cheat their way into United States universities are not only hurting their own success and reputations, but the success and reputations of American universities and their professors.