The Observer, February 24, 2006
Volume XXXVIII, Issue 18
Inaugural Academic Integrity Week to launch this Monday
Starting Monday, the Academic Integrity Board (AIB) will be hosting events for its inaugural Integrity Week. These events are part of a campus-wide outreach to promote awareness of the academic integrity policy.
"We want to get people talking about integrity and why it's important," AIB chair Katie Steiner said.
On Monday and Wednesday in Thwing as well as Tuesday in Nord, members of the Case community will be able to sign a banner declaring their status as "a person of integrity." Monday evening, an information session for those interested in the board will be held in House 4 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
A professional ethics panel will be held Tuesday from 11:30 to 1 p.m. in DeGrace 312. The panel will consist of students, employers, and alumni and will discuss the importance of ethics in the professional world.
On Thursday from 11:30 to 1 p.m. a keynote address by David Callahan will be held in Thwing Ballroom. Callahan, author of The Cheating Culture, will be discussing the growth of cheating in all aspects of American society, from business and academics to professional sports.
Friday marks the end of Integrity Week and features a panel discussion with Case faculty on the topic of students' and teachers' responsibility for academic integrity.
"[Case has] become a place where we have to be concerned about everyone," said Steiner.
The board decided to implement an Integrity Week on campus after getting the idea from the recent Center for Academic Integrity conference, according to Steiner. The board saw this event as a way to step away from the judicial aspect of academic integrity and increase their growth through programming.
"Our first priority was to enforce the integrity policy," AIB secretary Halle Tecco said. "Now that we've done that, we can work on making the campus aware of the policy through discussion of ethical issues, rather than sanctions."
Through programming, said Tecco, the AIB has seen a drastic improvement in the level of integrity on the Case campus.
"Our eventual goal is to have no violations. It would be great if the board didn't have to exist," said Steiner.
