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Creating Academic Communities to Promote Academic Honesty

Creating Academic Communities to Promote Academic Honesty. A Virtue Ethics Approach Nancy A. Stanlick, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Ethics Task Force Meeting October 2, 2006. What Constitutes Community?. A feeling of belonging Personal Friendship Koinonia – “Political Friendship”

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Creating Academic Communities to Promote Academic Honesty

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  1. Creating Academic Communities to Promote Academic Honesty A Virtue Ethics Approach Nancy A. Stanlick, Ph.D. Department of Philosophy Ethics Task Force Meeting October 2, 2006

  2. What Constitutes Community? • A feeling of belonging • Personal Friendship • Koinonia – “Political Friendship” • “Owning the Principles” • Autonomy • Creation of the Principles in Context • An Attitude Toward Community Membership • Competition • Cooperation

  3. Possible Community Structure • University • Office of Student Conduct • Student Conduct Board • Ethics Task Force • College Level • Dean’s Advisory Board • Department Representatives • Student Representatives from various majors, departments • Department Level - Majors • Department & Major Advisory Board • Faculty Board • Student Board

  4. What is Needed to Create Community? • Sense of the importance of community for achieving individual goals. Compare: • The individual ascendancy view (Kibler, et al.) • Hedonism, present, duty to self • The community ascendancy view (Kibler, et al.) • Duty, future, duty to others • Conception of Education • Competitive (Gert) • Individualistic view, creates pressure to cheat • Cooperative (Stanlick) • Community view, creates incentive to be honest

  5. Structuring Communities for a Culture of Academic Integrity

  6. References • Callahan, Daniel. The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead .Orlando: Harcourt, 2004. • Dewey, John. “Search for the Great Community.” In The Collected Works of John Dewey, Later Works, Volume Two, 1925-1927. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984. • Gert, Bernard. “Academic Cheating.” Video Lecture – (competitive conception of education and educational activity – see http://ethics.acusd.edu/video/CEPE2000/Cheating/index.html • Gert, Bernard. “Academic Cheating.” Retrieved January 1, 2005 from http://ethics.sandiego.edu/Resources/cai/webworkshop/Gert/Cheating.html. • Gert, Bernard. Morality: Its Nature and Justification. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. • Kibler, W.L., E.M. Nuss, B.G. Paterson, & G. Pavela. Academic Integrity and Student Development: Legal Issues, Policy Perspectives. Ashville, NC: College Administration Publications, 1998. • McCabe, Donald L., Linda K. Trevino, & Kenneth D. Butterfield. “Academic Integrity in Honor Code and Non-Honor Code Environments: A Qualitative Investigation.” Journal of Higher Education 70(2), 1999: 211-234. • McCabe, Donald L. and Patrick Drinan. “Toward a Culture of Academic Integrity.” Chronicle of Higher Education 10/15/1999, Vol. 46, Iss 8, retrieved through Academic Search Premier, March 11, 2003. • Stanlick, Nancy A. “Individualism, Community, and Academic Integrity.” Selected Papers from the 16th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning. Ed. Jack A. Chambers. Jacksonville, FL: Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (March 2005): 171-184. • Stanlick, Nancy A. “Creating an Honors Community: A Virtue Ethics Approach.” Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council. Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2006: 75-92. • Stanlick, Nancy A. “Individual-Centered Collaborative Research: Method and Theory.” Teaching Philosophy. FORTHCOMING March 2007. • Whitley, Bernard E., Jr., and Patricia Keith-Spiegel. Academic Dishonesty: An Educator’s Guide. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

  7. Additional Readings on Academic Communities • Bringle, Robert G. et al., Colleges and Universities as Citizens (Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1999). • McCabe, Donald L. et al., “Cheating in Academic Institutions: A Decade of Research,” Ethics and Behavior, Vol. 11(3), 2001. • McDonald, William M and Associates, Creating Campus Community: In Search of Ernest Boyer’s Legacy (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002). • Tephic, Donald A. and Peggy A. Ertmer, “Buidling Community as a Critical Element of Online Course Design,” Educational Technology, v. 43, no 5, Sep-Oct 2003, pp. 33-43. • Whitley, Bernard E. and Patricia Keith-Spiegel, “Academic Integrity as an Institutional Issue,” Ethics and Behavior, Vol. 11(3), 2001, pp. 325-342. • Whitley, Bernard E. and Patricia Keith-Spiegel, Academic Dishonesty: An Educator’s Guide (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002).

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