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Academic Integrity Community of Practice

Academic Integrity Series

co-sponsored by CETL and the Office of Academic Integrity

This community of learning and practice will focus on creating a classroom culture of integrity. Faculty engaged in the community will learn and share best practices and strategies with other faculty and support practitioners.

The series will take place weekly on Wednesdays from 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. beginning March 2 and continuing through April 13 (there will not be a meeting the week of Spring Break). Meetings will be held via Zoom.

Sign up if you are interested in joining the community. You will receive a calendar invitation with a Zoom link to join the online meetings. Please feel free to join the community even if you cannot make every meeting. If you have questions about the community, please contact teaching@vt.edu.

Series Schedule

Date and Time Topics/Focus Highlighted Presenters
Wednesday, March 2
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
 
Know the code: What are the criteria and characteristics for a violation? How to address violations when they happen? Kara Latopolski
Michael Largen
Wednesday, March 16
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
 
Integrity Matters: Strategies and mindsets that demonstrate and teach students the importance of academic integrity

Buddy Howell

Wednesday, March 23r
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.

Academic integrity potholes: Avoiding the most common practices connected to violations

Kara Latopolski
Michael Largen
Wednesday, March 30
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
 
Collaborating with integrity: Setting expectations for collaboration and supporting peer learning with limits Kelli Karcher
Phil Nelson
Wednesday, April 6
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
 
Scaffolding assignments for integrity: Assignment scheduling and feedback strategies for supporting students to apply integrity in the discipline Godmar Back
Brandy Faulkner
Wednesday, April 13
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
Cultural understanding of academic integrity: Setting and teaching norms of integrity with international students Mingzhi Li
Jill Sible