NVC Faculty Resource Kit: Encouraging Academic Integrity

NVC Faculty Resource Kit: Encouraging Academic Integrity: "
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Encouraging Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is essential to learning. Northwest Vista College is committed to creating and fostering an environment that encourages and rewards academic integrity at all levels. To do this, we foster the fundamental values of academic integrity: honesty, trust, respect, fairness, and responsibility in all our actions, assignments, assessments and communications. (These values were identified by The Center for Academic Integrity in their Fundamental Values Project.)

To achieve our goal, we are committed to the Ten Principles of Academic Integrity, as defined by Donald L. McCabe and Gary Pavela:

1. Affirm the importance of academic integrity.
2. Foster a love of learning.
3. Treat students as ends in themselves.
4. Promote an environment of trust in the classroom.
5. Encourage student responsibility for academic integrity.
6. Clarify expectations for students.
7. Develop fair and relevant forms of assessment.
8. Reduce opportunities to engage in academic dishonesty.
9. Challenge academic dishonesty when it occurs.
10. Help define and support campus-wide academic integrity standards."