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ETHOS
A Monthly Publication of the
Center for Academic Integrity
Featuring Summaries of Integrity News plus News from the Center
Quote of the Month
"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right, decide on what youthink is right and stick to it."
~ George Eliot
“
FSU tarnished far beyond sports
”
 
St. Petersburg Times, In Print: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
 A 2007 NCAA Committee on Infractions has released areport regarding the FSU athletic program. It wasfound that athletes were helped much more thannonathletes, which was routinely overlooked byadministrators. Employees also allegedly went one stepfurther and provided answers for an exam in an onlinemusic course. FSU found 61 athletes in 10 sports hadcommitted academic fraud. The St. Petersburg Times
reported, “The successful athletic programs came at
the
price of academic integrity….
The
University’s
academicintegrity, not its football team's won-loss record, should
be at the front of the board of trustees' agenda.”
 
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1045252.ece
“
Club promotes honesty pledge forindividuals
”
 
By: Amanda Mitchell SUUNEWS.com: 11/22/2009
Southern Utah University now has a club of 40members who took the first Students Committed toIntegrity and Ethics pledge together.
The club’s goal is
to
“
get 50
percent of the student body sign the pledge,then bring it to the SUUSA senate to implement it school
wide.” A great example of grassroots effort on behalf of
academic integrity!
http://www.suunews.com/2.8066/club-promotes-honesty-pledge-for-individuals-1.2066505
The Chronicle Online, Posted Online: 10/19/09
When commuter campus PUC grew byexpanding the library, then building newdorms and constructing new tennis courts, thestaff of the campus newspaper questionedwhether the focus was on academia or onseeing the campus grow in size. The staff 
writes, “
Thenew dorms are welcomed and thetennis courts handy, but there is no substitute for
academic integrity.” Thus with the expanding
dorms and athletic facilities, the staff wants moreacademic resources (such as an expansion of thelibrary) so as not to lose focus on what studentare really on campus for.
http://media.www.pucchronicle.com/media/storage/paper1082/news/2009/10/19/Opinion/Campus.Growing.Faster.Than.The.Library-3806319.shtml
 
“
Campus growing faster than the library
”
 
 
From the Director 
 At this time every year, we begin tonotice the effects of the semester startingto wear on our students. Dark circlesappear under their eyes, along withfurrowed brows, and anxious expressionsthat we barely see as they hurry past usin the halls. A few of them will come and share theirconcerns with us, spilling their anxieties(and sometimes a few tears) in ouroffices. Far more, however, will try tomanage without ever telling us that theyfeel overwhelmed and underprepared.It is well worth spending some of theprecious time we have left to remindthem of our expectations regardingintegrity and of the significance of thetasks that we have assigned. In the rushto get things done, it is easy to lose sightof the fact that the students, not thepapers and exams are the focus of ourattention and that ultimately, themeasure of success is not the grades inthe class but what they have learnedfrom it.
It’s a tough sell, but if we don’t say it, we
can hardly expect them to know.Join the conversation about this andother topics @
http://www.academicintegrity.org/members/forum/
NOVEMBER 2009
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