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    Who Has Responsibility for Promoting Academic Integrity and Preventing Academic Dishonesty? Experience has shown that students think faculty are responsible, faculty think students and administrators are responsible and administrators think that students and faculty are responsible. Because all three share responsibility, a member of each group has been asked to present his/her perspective.

Faculty Responsibility

• Faculty are responsible for educating students about what academic integrity is and why it is a core value within institutions of higher learning. After providing this framework, faculty should then explain the various forms of cheating, emphasizing the practices that will be considered dishonest within their own classes. It is recommended that faculty use a number of different vehicles to convey essential information, including classroom discussions, syllabus statements, and course handouts.
• As educators, faculty are responsible for serving as good role models for integrity. and for educating themselves about academic integrity, using resources such as A Reference Guide for Faculty and Staff and A Faculty Guide to Academic Integrity which can be obtained from the Student Development Office.
• Faculty are responsible for preventing, detecting, and reporting academic dishonesty.

                                           Lisa Gray-Shellberg, Professor of Psychology, CSUDH

Student Responsibility

• Students are responsible for the integrity of their actions and must be willing to accept consequences for these actions.
• Students have the responsibility to be familiar with the University policies and to seek clarification with faculty if they are unclear about expectations for any assignment.
• Students are also encouraged to report academic dishonesty.
• In the sense that a university is a community, students should understand their own role in the creation of the kind of environment that encourages honesty and discourages academic fraud. Students need not tolerate any action on the part of another that diminishes their own integrity or that of the university.

                                                  Alejandro Gomez, B.A. Psychology, 1997, CSUDH

Administration Responsibility

• Administrators are responsible for ensuring that appropriate policies on academic integrity are developed, maintained, and enforced.
• Administrators are responsible for educating the entire campus community about university policies and procedures, promoting academic integrity, and appropriately addressing violations of these policies.

                                            Larry Gray, Director, Student Development, CSUDH