Free donuts, movies and games provided for students helped promote academic integrity during a weeklong event hosted by the business college last week. Price College of Business partnered with the University of Oklahoma Academic Integrity Council for Academic Integrity Week 2014 to provide free food and speakers for students to stress the importance of academic integrity March 3-7. “Integrity Week is important because most students don’t fully understand academic integrity. If everyone did, we wouldn’t have cases of academic misconduct,” Emily Dudney, junior civil engineering major and Academic Integrity Council peer educator, said. Dudney said the purpose of Integrity Week is to equip students with information about the academic code of conduct and ways to report cheating and to recruit new members for the Integrity Council. “You don’t hear a lot about academic integrity, but it is something that is crucial to academic success, and I think it was really helpful for students that Price promoted that,” Sally Harper, Price sophomore and general management major, said. To engage student participation, Integrity Week sponsored a wide range of events such as the Integrity Bowl Game, an information fair and a movie night, according to a flyer on its website. Integrity Week also featured a lecture on the importance of academic integrity delivered by Marianne Jennings, Professor Emeritus at the Carey School of Business at Arizona State University on Thursday, March 6. “The goal is to educate people through a means of discouragement. If a student is constantly reminded about integrity and the value of the OU degree, he is less likely to jeopardize his education and the education of his peers,” Dudney said.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 04:05:06 +0000
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