Carnegie Mellon

Promoting Academic Integrity

While the community needs methods to deal with breaches of integrity when they occur, we also need to examine what we have to gain when we proactively promote academic integrity. Here are some important benefits for individual students and our community.

Both instructors and students can consider steps to enhance academic integrity in the Carnegie Mellon community. These suggestions are drawn from ongoing conversations with students and faculty over the years and from the literature on academic integrity. The steps below include ways students can more effectively manage their own learning with the help of university resources and ways individual instructors can enhance support for student learning and integrity.