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Office of Academic Integrity
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Kelly Ahuna, PhD
Director

Loretta Frankovitch, PhD
Associate Director

24 Capen Hall
716-645-2111
academicintegrity@buffalo.edu
Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Promote Academic Integrity

How to Promote Academic Integrity in the Classroom

  • Get to know your students. The more connection they feel to you, the less likely they are to cheat.
  • Include information about the academic integrity policy and what it means in your course/field of study, in your syllabus.
  • Be clear about your expectations for if and how generative AI can be used on each assignment, and explain your rationale.
  • Facilitate a discussion about academic integrity in the classroom, including standards, norms and discipline. Give specific examples.
  • Use accessible language when you talk or write about academic integrity.
  • Recognize that students from other parts of the world may have learned a different set of norms around academic integrity.
  • Model academic honesty in your teaching by pointing out where and how you used artificial intelligence in your work, cited information on slides, etc.
  • Consistently enforce academic integrity standards and address all acts of academic dishonesty.
  • Be explicit about what are not legitimate resources for help. If you want students to avoid online resources or generative AI,, for example, make that clear.
  • Be explicit about acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.

FAQ

Often international students have a very different concept of academic integrity than do students from the United States. It is crucial for you to convey accepted norms for a U.S. research institution to all students, but particularly so to international students. 

Common U.S. Academic Integrity NormsCommon International Academic Integrity Norms

Originality.

Memorization.

Actively pursuing and creating knowledge.

Reproducing/copying texts.

Critiquing others’ ideas and questioning authorities.

Absorbing information.

Creating new documents which push knowledge boundaries.

Practice by summarizing others’ works.

Individual submission of assignments.

Group studying and sharing of notes and other materials.

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