Academic Dishonesty: An Educator's Guide (review)

Academic integrity, although widely recognized as an essential value to the educational mission of the higher education community, is often viewed as tangential with little need for actuation; simply stated, academic integrity does not just happen. Academic Dishonesty: An Educator's Guide, authored by faculty members Whitley and Keith-Spiegel, is a thorough examination of the lack of integrity as a contemporary problem in the academy. The authors successfully collaborate to provide a useful description of academic integrity as a goal to be achieved through a deliberate process. Individual chapters capably address: why faculty, administrators, and students should concern themselves about issues of integrity; the widespread extent of the problem of academic dishonesty in colleges and universities; factors contributing to student cheating; strategies designed for faculty to promote academic integrity in the classroom; the importance of campus climate and/or ethos issues; and potential responses to alleged infractions of academic dishonesty.