K-State honor and integrity system

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K-State honor and integrity system

• Graduate Student Orientation

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K-State Pride and Tradition

• High level of academic achievement
• High level of pride to be a Wildcat
• Alumni and community support
• You have come to K-State to continue your
  educational pursuit. Take the time to understand
  how to be a successful and an honorable graduate
  student.

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Components of Honor and Integrity System

• Pledge
• Staff
• Honor Council
• HIPE

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K-State Honor Pledge

• On my honor, as a student, I have neither
• given nor received unauthorized aid
• on this academic work.

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What does this mean for a graduate student?

• Individual Research
• Library Research
• Collaboration
• Thesis and Dissertation Work
• Understand what each of your faculty members
  expect from you and how to appropriately give
  credit to anything and everything that is not
  your own work.

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Tips while at K-State

• Cultures Vary
• Read and seek to understand the K-State culture
  of academic integrity
• From an international student Everything you
  say, you have to put someones name and the date
  and the page. And at home, that was not the
  case. (Eland, 2001, p. 85)
• Eland, A. J. (2001). Intersection of Academics
  and Culture The Academic Experience of
  International Graduate Students. Unpublished
  dissertation, University of Minnesota,
  Minneapolis, MN

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Honor Council

• Adjudicating body
• Faculty/student representation with more voting
  students
• Serve as case investigators
• Serve as hearing panelists
• 10 graduate student members

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H.I.P.E.

• Stands for Honor Integrity Peer Educators
• Serves 2 purposes
• Educate the campus community
• Serve as advisors to students coming through the
  System
• Graduate component applications online and at
  HI booth following these presentations

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Are you a GTA?

• Communicate first with your coordinating faculty
  member.
• Give verbal and written expectations.
• Use scenarios in explaining expectations.
• Report ALL violations where an academic sanction
  has been given.
• Use Faculty Tips on web site.

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www.k-state.edu/honor
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HI Resources

• 215 Fairchild Hall
• honor_at_ksu.edu OR 785-532-2595