New tool for training students on academic integrity

The recently released CITI course on Academic Integrity responds to an increasing demand in higher education. Maintaining and promoting academic integrity among students is challenging to manage in the technology era. Chat GPT and AI make it even more difficult. Universities struggle with the dilemma of forbidding the use of AI in the context of …

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Externalizing RCR education may be a good idea.

I grew up in a dictatorship in communist Romania. I remember that in middle and high school, the entire academic community was required to complete ideological training to educate us to become the “new people of the Golden Era” – the ultimate objective of the so-called multilaterally developed socialist society. In this society, negative feedback …

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How Writing and Training Can Support Culture Change

There is a rich literature concerning common mistakes made in efforts to achieve culture change. What’s one of the biggest reasons organizations fail to reach this vitally important goal? It happens when leadership simply ignores the people whose organizational culture they are trying to change. Leaders either do not consult employees, or they schedule fake …

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