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University of Wisconsin-Stout Academic Integrity Working Group

MISSION STATEMENT:
The UW-Stout Academic Integrity Working Group represents all members of the UW-Stout community.  It supports students, faculty and staff to promote standards of excellence in academia through professional development, resources, and networking.  The Working Group endorses a culture of academic integrity and rigor across all all campus activities and encourages the highest standards of professional integrity.

GOALS and OBJECTIVES:
Enhance cultural environment/cultural shift on campus regarding academia and professionalism

• Student Culture - Increase interest in & knowledge of academic professionalism expectation at the college-level; help students understand scholarly culture (beliefs, values, expectations, customs, etc.)

Explore student's understanding, adaptation and authentic engagement of a "scholarly culture" (such as foreign exchange experience) with its conceptualized history, values, customs, language, assumptions and expectations

Faculty and Staff Culture - Develop a faculty and staff culture (beliefs, values, attitudes, actions)
that:

• Supports a culture of academic rigor/professionalism
• Honors academic freedom
• Recognizes the interdependent responsibilities of faculty and students dealing with plagiarism
• Identifies available preventative strategies and resources
• Identifies needed infrastructural support for faculty