Academic Integrity for Faculty

Assiniboine Community College is committed to a culture of academic integrity. As a member of the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI), we are informed by their six fundamental values:

• honesty
• trust
• fairness
• respect
• responsibility
• courage (International Center for Academic Integrity, 2014).

Staff and faculty work with students to help them succeed in an academically honest way by:

• empowering students to participate in the scholarship of their respective fields
• gaining the skills and knowledge that accredited credentials represent
• safely contributing to our society through jobs acquired upon graduation

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Assiniboine's Academic Integrity Policy

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Academic Integrity Support

While Policy A25 guides issues of academic integrity at Assiniboine, students are able and encouraged to discuss any questions or concerns with:

• your instructor 
• Library staff 
• Learning Curve staff 
• your Student Success Advisor 
• your Chair 
• your Dean 

Students can also learn more about academic integrity in Assiniboine's Academic Integrity for Students Library Guide.

Assiniboine is a member of the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI). This partnership gives Assiniboine access to many resources on academic integrity, and enables us to contribute to the field by researching and presenting at ICAI and related conferences. You will find ICAI material under the Resources tab.

The Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN) is an organization that serves to bring together educators and students from post-secondary institutions across Manitoba to support academic integrity initiatives. Assiniboine currently has two members on the MAIN board, allowing for collaboration with other colleges and universities in the province.

Academic Integrity Inter Institutional Meeting (AIIIM)

Academic Integrity Inter Institutional Meeting (AIIIM) is an annual teaching and learning event for post-secondary academic staff from across the province of Manitoba, Canada. The goal of the AIIIM is to share strategies and resources to help to provide students with the best possible learning experience - one that is centered on integrity. Assiniboine hosted the event in 2018, and Assiniboine staff and faculty have presented at every annual event to date.

Assiniboine's Academic Integrity Advisory Committee (AIAC) has three purposes:

• inform Learning Commons services, projects, and resources related to academic integrity
• identify opportunities to implement and evaluate academic integrity interventions and supports
• contribute to policy and procedure development

The committee currently has members from six different Assiniboine campuses and sites, and meets quarterly. The advisory committee is informed by many academic integrity frameworks. Two of the main ones are combined into the graphic. In the inverted pyramid structure seen here:

• We aim to provide proactive, positive, and supportive education in academic integrity for all Assiniboine stakeholders
• Then aim to prevent opportunities for academic misconduct through a variety of means, including assessment design, blocking access to contract cheating and file-sharing websites, and the use of text-matching software
• This should help reduce the amount of academic misconduct identification required and ultimately
• Reduce the number of Assiniboine students ending up at a point where the administration of policies is necessary. Both of these steps remain an integral part of our academic integrity culture, however.

According to Lang (2013), "the environments which reduce the incentive and opportunity to cheat are the very ones that…will lead to greater and deeper learning by your students” (p.39).

For more information on the AIAC, contact Josh in the library.