Academic Integrity
The intentional use or attempt to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices in any academic exercise and includes the unauthorized communication of information during an academic exercise.
Cheating
Identify and Assess
Research and Develop options
Make a decision
Translate into a plan of action
Decision Making Process
weighing the facts, logical thinking
Planning
MLK reading title
The Purpose of Education
Best email to email your instructors from
School Email
he practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. (Unintentional; Cyber-downloading; Self- writer)
Plagiarism
Step 1
Identify and Assess
playing it safe
defaulting
MLK article author
Martin Luther King Jr
Subject line of email to instructors
Class and sections number
Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
Complicity in academic dishonesty
Step 2
Research and Develop Options
compliant, letting others decide
pleasing others
The year you:
• Get to know yourself and how you fit into college life.
• Explore your academic and extracurricular interests.
• Locate and visit important campus resources and offices (financial aid, student life, academic/ tutoring services, registration, disability services, campus security, computer lab, health center).
• Adjust to your new environment and the freedom/responsibility that go along with it.
• Assess your study skills and habits; improve them if they need work.
• Figure out the differences in the academic demands from your previous school and find resources that will contribute to your success.
• Explore clubs and organizations that interest you.
• Talk to other students for advice about their majors, classes and professors.
• Start to become aware of people in roles who are doing work that is interesting to you.
• Consider a job, an internship or a volunteer experience in an area that interests you.
• Begin researching career and major possibilities.
• Meet with your academic advisor to explore requirements for transfer to a university and your course schedule for next semester
. • Enroll in a transfer degree program.
• Begin researching prospective four-year colleges and admissions information.
• Declare a major or program.
• Identify a learning community.
Freshman Year
Your closing and name at the end of an email
signature
The intentional and unauthorized invention of alteration of any information or citation in an academic exercise.
Fabrication and falsification
Step 3
Make a Decision
procrastination, delaying
Avoidance
The year you:
Meet with your faculty advisor to discuss majors and course planning options. Establish your academic plan.
• Establish a strong relationship with career services and find out what insights they provide on career direction. Map out your career plan. Conduct a more detailed exploration of occupations and possibilities. Identify possible career field options.
• Learn how to network and cultivate mentors. Start attending networking events. Create a tracking system for your contacts. Attend career fairs and workshops and start making contacts.
• Conduct informational interviews with people working in career fields that interest you.
• Get more invested in leadership opportunities and extracurricular activities. Find out what organizations related to your career or major exist. Consider running for an executive position within an organization.
• Start exploring service learning and volunteer opportunities. Get hands-on experience by using your breaks and vacations to volunteer and intern.
• Select your major and concentration or minor.
• Keep a journal of your experiences and the skills you are gaining while in college.
• Begin looking into graduate schools and requirements (exams, GPA requirements, costs, fellowships, etc.).
• Decide on the transfer colleges you will apply to.
• Meet with your faculty advisor to make sure you are on schedule to graduate and transfer.
• Conduct campus visits for top college transfer choices.
• Plan living arrangements for next year.
• Apply for graduation at your community college.
Sophomore year
The type of language you should use in an email to your professors
formal
making inaccessible, destroying, or stealing library or other academic resource material, including equipment. Violations may be referred to civil authorities for prosecution under the law.
Abuse of academic materials
Step 4
Translate plan into action
don’t look before you leap!
Impulsive
1. that they are motivated to learn as they experience needs and interests that learning will satisfy;
2. that their orientation to learning is life-centered;
3. that the richest source for the adults learning is experience;
4. that adults have a deep need to direct themselves;
5. and that people's individual differences increase with age.
Eduard C. Lindeman’s five assumptions about adult learners
The number of times you should email an instructor per hour without receiving a response
1