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Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to being honest, ethical, fair, and responsible in your academic work. These principles apply to students, instructors, and researchers. When we act with integrity, we recognize the hard work that goes into studying, learning, teaching, and researching and make an effort to respect the effort that we all put into our work.

Click through the tabs below to explore the Six Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity, from the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI).

The Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity

Honesty

hon·es·ty
The quality of being honest, free from fraud or deception, legitimate, truthful.

 

How to show honesty:

  • Be truthful
  • Give credit to the owner of the work
  • Keep promises
  • Provide factual evidence
  • Aspire to objectivity, consider all sides and your own biases

Trust

trust
The assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something.

 

How to show trust:

  • Clearly state expectations and follow through on them
  • Promote transparency in values, processes, and outcomes
  • Trust others
  • Encourage mutual understanding
  • Act with genuine intentions

Fairness

fair·ness
The quality or state of being fair, especially fair or impartial treatment, lack of favoritism toward one side or another.

 

How to show fairness:

  • Apply rules and policies consistently
  • Keep an open-mind
  • Be objective
  • Take responsibility for your own actions

Respect

re·spect
High or special regard, esteem; the quality or state of being esteemed.

 

How to show respect:

  • Practice active listening
  • Receive feedback willingly
  • Accept that others' thoughts and ideas are valid
  • Show empathy
  • Affirm others and accept differences
  • Recognize the consequences of our words and actions on others

Responsibility

re·spon·si·bil·i·ty
The quality or state of being responsible; moral, legal, or mental accountability; reliability, trustworthiness.

 

How to show responsibility:

  • Hold yourself accountable for your actions
  • Engage with others in difficult conversations, even when silence is easier
  • Know and follow institutional rules and codes of conduct
  • Create, understand, and respect personal boundaries
  • Follow through on tasks and expectations
  • Model good behaviour for others

Courage

cour·age
The mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.

 

How to show courage:

  • Be brave even when others are not
  • Take a stand to address a wrongdoing and support others doing the same
  • Endure discomfort for something you believe in
  • Be undaunted in defending integrity
  • Be willing to take risks and risk failure

Academic Misconduct

Academic misconduct happens when you breach one of the principles of academic integrity, whether you intended to or not. Academic misconduct might include one of the following:

  • Plagiarism
    • Not citing your sources in a paper, or not citing enough
    • Submitting work completed (even partially) by someone else and claiming it as your own
  • Cheating
    • Copying or trying to copy someone else's answers on a test or exam
    • Bringing unauthorized materials into a test or exam
    • Writing a test or exam for someone else, or allowing someone else to write a test or exam for you
    • Submitting work completed in one course for another course without authorization from your instructor
    • Fabricating data for a research project
    • Taking someone else's document from a printer
  • Educational Misconduct
    • Unauthorized use of JIBC educational materials
    • Accessing or viewing an exam before the exam time or helping someone else do the same
  • Misrepresentation of Falsified Documents
    • Misrepresenting a past academic record, transcript, or document
    • Falsifying an academic credential
  • Collusion
    • Helping someone in an attempted act of misconduct

This list is not exhaustive. If you are attempting to misrepresent your own work (past or present) or helping someone else do the same, you are committing academic misconduct.

An act of academic misconduct can result in your work being rejected, failing an assignment, failing a course or program, being placed on academic probation, or even being suspended or expelled.

Academic Integrity at JIBC

As a student at JIBC it is your responsibility to be aware of the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure documents. Lack of awareness is not an excuse from responsibility. 

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