Academic Integrity Digest: September 2024
Welcome to the Fall edition of the Academic Integrity Digest, and welcome back to campus for the 2024/25 academic year. This issue’s theme continues to explore the intersection of academic integrity and generative AI. Specifically, the editorial takes a deeper look into tools for detecting the use of artificial intelligence and presents research on their […]
Editorial: Academic Integrity and the Role of the Office of the Ombudsperson for Students
An editorial for the Academic Integrity Digest by Shirley Nakata and Cindy Leonard Students who come to the Office of the Ombudsperson for Students are facing diverse sets of challenges in their university life, often compounded by personal circumstances. It is common for us to get questions about academic integrity or how to navigate the […]
Profiles: Q&A with UBCV and UBCO Student Partners
We are pleased to highlight a few examples of how students serve as active partners in academic integrity. Q&A with AMS Academic and University Affairs Office, 2022-2023 at UBC Vancouver: Advocating for academic integrity on campus What is your role in supporting academic integrity? Our office collaborated with the Academic Integrity Hub this year to […]
Teaching with Integrity: Methods and Strategies for Fostering Academic Integrity in Your Classroom or Laboratory
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023Time: 10am to noonFormat: Online Description This event is part of the TA Institute, taking place from January 16–19, 2023. Eligibility: The TA Institute is open to all undergraduate TAs, graduate students who are interested in teaching, and all graduate student TAs. This session is not open to general undergraduate students, staff, […]
Panel Session: Educative Approaches to Academic Integrity
Date: Monday, December 12, 2022Time: 11am to noonFormat: Zoom Description Academic integrity is a cross-cutting concept in higher education. It affects students’ experience and learning and educators’ course and assessment design decisions. There have been many recent developments around academic integrity at UBC, including updates to the academic misconduct regulation to introduce a diversionary process […]
Connecting on Academic Integrity at UBC Okanagan
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022Time: 11am to 12:30pmFormat: Virtual (zoom link sent to registrants one day before event) Description Facilitated by Dr. Anita Chaudhuri, UBC Okanagan’s Faculty Advisor on Academic Integrity, this panel session provides an opportunity to discuss issues of academic integrity across teaching and learning. It will include information about UBC Okanagan’s recently […]
Academic Integrity: New Regulation & Website
The Academic Calendar section on “Discipline for Academic Misconduct” has been updated to introduce an additional path for Faculties (Deans’ offices) to respond to allegations of academic misconduct. The new formal diversionary process includes an integrity plan in which Faculties and students can develop a plan of action to respond to academic misconduct. At the […]
Academic Integrity Week 2022
Mark your calendars! UBC’s second annual Academic Integrity Week is scheduled for October 17-21, 2022. The awareness week, designed for students and for instructors, will feature events and resources around academic integrity and academic misconduct. Check out all of the information on our Academic Integrity Week page.
Dr. Laurie McNeill receives Tricia Bertram Gallant Award for Outstanding Service from the International Center for Academic Integrity
Congratulations to Dr. Laurie McNeill, who received the Tricia Bertram Gallant Award for Outstanding Service from the International Center for Academic Integrity in March 2022! Dr. McNeill is a Professor of Teaching with the Department of English Language and Literatures, and was lead investigator on the TLEF-funded project “Our Cheating Hearts?: Changing the Conversation through […]
Academic Integrity at Celebrate Learning Week 2022
This year’s Celebrate Learning Week includes two academic integrity related events. Encouraging Academic Integrity Through a Preventative Framework May 11, 2022 | 9:30 – 11:00 am | Online Through a collaboration between the Teaching and Curriculum Development Centre (TCDC) [Langara College], the Centre for Intercultural Engagement (CIE) [Langara College] and the Academic Integrity and Student […]
Academic Integrity Events at 2022 CTLT Spring Institute
There will be two upcoming sessions focused on academic integrity at this year’s CTLT Spring Institute (May 30-June 3, 2022). Let’s Talk About Academic Integrity: How, What, and When to Incorporate Academic Integrity into Your Course May 30, 2022 | 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Zoom Academic integrity is a commitment to upholding the […]
Academic Integrity issue of CTLT’s Edubytes Newsletter
In the February edition of Edubytes, we dive into concepts around academic integrity, with a spotlight on new developments and resources at UBC. Our guest editors are Ainsley Rouse, PhD, Senior Manager Academic Integrity, Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic; and Jaclyn J Stewart, PhD, Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Science and Co-Chair, Academic Integrity Working Group. […]
International Center for Academic Integrity
The International Center for Academic Integrity is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to cultivating cultures of integrity in academic communities. UBC holds an institutional membership to the ICAI. The ICAI website offers a wide array of resources around academic integrity, including access to the Academic Integrity Reader and the Integrity Matters blog. The ICAI holds […]
Academic Integrity Working Group
The Academic Integrity Working Group led the development of UBC’s new cross-campus academic integrity website. Student, faculty and staff members brought their perspectives on academic integrity to guide the concept and content creation. The result is a site that integrates support for teaching and learning academic integrity and provides support and guidance on academic misconduct.
Launch of Academic Integrity Website
We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Academic Integrity website at UBC. Teaching and promoting academic integrity and responding to academic misconduct allegations are all part of UBC’s culture of academic integrity. Academic integrity is a commitment to upholding the values of respect, integrity, and accountability in coursework. The new website will […]