Challenges and Benefits of an Academic Integrity Office: Sustaining an Academic Integrity Culture Focused on Student Development

The COVID-19 pandemic caused an immediate shift for institutions to educate their students virtually. This shift also affected the academic integrity culture at many institutions. This chapter explores what happened during the pandemic and what we can learn from it in terms of the following: student development and why cheating may have occurred, assessments of students, use of technology, and institutional policies and procedures as related to academic integrity. The goal for institutions of higher education is to educate and support our students, and reflecting on the challenges of the pandemic can illuminate positives outcomes, which could enhance the education in the future.