Libraries Support Academic Integrity Days

The Auburn University Student Government Association, the Academic Honesty Committee and the Office of the Provost have joined together to host the first Academic Integrity Days to Auburn on January 13-14 and the Libraries have joined in supporting the effort. The hope is to promote academic integrity as a core institutional value and to raise awareness of the consequences of violating the academic honesty code. Bradley Byrne, Chancellor of the Alabama Community College System, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 13 in the Lowder Business Building, Room 125A. He will discuss the importance of ethics and the ways in which academic integrity is important to each student. The Libraries’ Jean Liddel, resident expert on plagiarism and academic integrity, has been invited to serve as a panelist at a roundtable discussion on the importance of academic integrity with Byrne and Auburn faculty and students at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 14 in the new Student Center, Room 2222.

Jean Liddel has prepared an instructional powerpoint defining plagiarism, providing tips on how to avoid it and informing students of the consequences should they choose to cheat. You can view Jean’s presentation and her properly cited sources at http://lib.auburn.edu/plagiarism/ .