Cultural change is often required to support a positive academic integrity environment, a challenge for small institutions and community colleges alike. This case study demonstrates how planned, incremental changes to institutional practices and assessment approaches shifted a college’s culture from rule compliance to an academic integrity culture. Employing Gallant and Drinan’s (2008) four-stage model of institutionalization, this research develops lessons for other institutions, contributes to a greater understanding of academic integrity in applied education, and illustrates how the community college setting is conducive to institutionalizing academic integrity through practical processes and tools. The chapter ends with recent institutional work to further embed academic integrity into institutional quality assurance framework standards, processes, and evaluations and how the cultural evolution of quality assurance facilitates making academic integrity an integral part of all aspects of academic programming, from design to evaluation.

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Successful Institutional Change: Lessons on Building a Culture of Academic Integrity

  • Caitlin Munn,
  • Deanna Rexe,
  • Josh Seeland

摘要

Cultural change is often required to support a positive academic integrity environment, a challenge for small institutions and community colleges alike. This case study demonstrates how planned, incremental changes to institutional practices and assessment approaches shifted a college’s culture from rule compliance to an academic integrity culture. Employing Gallant and Drinan’s (2008) four-stage model of institutionalization, this research develops lessons for other institutions, contributes to a greater understanding of academic integrity in applied education, and illustrates how the community college setting is conducive to institutionalizing academic integrity through practical processes and tools. The chapter ends with recent institutional work to further embed academic integrity into institutional quality assurance framework standards, processes, and evaluations and how the cultural evolution of quality assurance facilitates making academic integrity an integral part of all aspects of academic programming, from design to evaluation.