posted on 2024-11-18, 08:55authored byJames Lee, Charles Sumbler
Queen’s University is a comprehensive, research-intensive, but highly decentralized institution located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. As part of a new institutional paradigm embracing the broader, proactive principles of academic integrity, a new university role was created, known as the Academic Integrity (AI) Advisor to the Vice-Principal (Academic). Focusing on three key areas – awareness, education, and policy and procedures – the Advisor has broad responsibility for AI policy development, information gathering and sharing, and for promotion of the values of academic integrity. Free from the challenges of handling specific cases, the AI Advisor can focus on establishing best-practices in the three key areas, by drawing on the research, experiences, and analysis of other institutional practices from the Canadian and international environments. Numerous university-wide initiatives targeted at students, instructors and faculty members, and administrators, have brought together a variety of institutional partners to raise the profile of AI across the university. By building on a principle of broad institutional inclusion, this position thus provides a dynamic lens through which a variety of academic-integrity issues faced within and by universities, both centralized and decentralized, can be discussed and effectively addressed.