Every year, students struggle with completing assignments,
and the various demands on their time and effort can lead them to take
short-cuts or even to cheat.
Especially at this time of year when large projects and
writing assignments are due, faculty are faced with making decisions as to
whether student submitted their own work or the work of someone else.
During the Showcase of Osprey Advancements in Research &
Scholarship (SOARS) conference on Friday, April 19th, there
will be a couple of events that will address these issues. One is a
faculty-student forum at 11:45 - 1:00 in
the Student Union Ballroom A-B (at the University of North Florida) on and the other, a Keynote Address by Dr. Donald L. McCabe, Professor of
Management and Global Business at Rutgers University, titled Promoting Academic Integrity.
I encourage you to attend these worthwhile and engaging events.
I encourage you to attend these worthwhile and engaging events.
Best,
Dan Richard
Pragmatism or Plagiarism? a
SOARS Faculty-Student Forum
Moderator:
Dr. Judith Ochrietor, Department of Biology
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Panelists:
Thomas
J. Van Schoor, Student Ombudsman
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Natalie
Hofmann, OUR Research Fellow
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Andrea
McLeod, Assistant Registrar
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Aaron
Leedy, Faculty & Former Student
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F.
Dan Richard, Director, Office of Faculty Enhancement
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During
this interactive forum the audience will watch short vignettes in which students
discuss writing papers revealing some of the questions, myths, and
misperceptions about plagiarism. After each vignette, audience members will be
invited to respond to questions about their perceptions of the students’
behavior using their cell phones. Results of these polls will be immediately
displayed. The moderator will then help guide a discussion about the audience’s
perceptions of the students’ writing approaches, whether or not the students’
approaches constitute plagiarism, and, if so, what the consequences should be.
Members of the panel will serve as resources for audience participants by
answering questions and clarifying UNF procedures and processes.
Keynote
Address
Dr.
Donald L. McCabe
Promoting
Academic Integrity
Dr.
McCabe is a Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers University.
For more than twenty years he has done extensive research on college cheating,
surveying over 250,000 students at more than 220 colleges and universities in
the U.S. and Canada. He has also surveyed over 40,000 high school students in
the United States during the last ten to fifteen years. His work has been
published widely in business, education, and sociology journals and he is
founding president of the Center for Academic Integrity, a consortium of over
300 colleges and universities based at Clemson University. Members of this
consortium are joined in a united effort to promote academic integrity among
college and university students.
Dr. McCabe earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Princeton University
(1966), an M.B.A. in Marketing from Seton Hall University (1970), and a Ph.D.
in Management from New York University (1985). He worked for over 20 years in
the corporate world before joining Rutgers University in 1988. His last
corporate position was Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Devro, Inc.,
a Johnson & Johnson company.
