Honor and Opportunity: Academic Integrity in the Community College

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 1
  In Poster Session: Division J Poster Session: Student Learning and Development

Abstract

Higher education institutions have the opportunity to promote academic integrity education on campus by providing clear guidelines, equitable resolutions, and student and faculty engagement. Considerations unique to the community college include diversity, contingent faculty, and workforce orientation (Tull, Kuk, & Dalpes, 2015) affect academic integrity practice.
To better understand academic integrity education in the community college, a longitudinal case study using a partially mixed, concurrent, dominant status design (Johnson, Onwuegbuzie, & Turner, 2007) examined the components of academic integrity education within one Mid-Western community college, as perceived by faculty and staff over five years.
Faculty classroom management and curriculum development emerged as important tools in setting expectations of integrity. Challenges to these efforts include limited resources, education, and role expectations.

Author

• Ceceilia Parnther, St. John's University