Recently added articles from Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council:
Dedication: Richard James Cummings.(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For an issue of JNCHC focused on "Honors and Academic Integrity," Dick Cummings is an obvious choice for our dedication. He has been a stalwart and important leader in honors at his home institution--the University of Utah--as well as in the National ...
Editor's introduction.
Sep 22, 2008; ... While cheating and plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty have perhaps always been topics of concern in education, the discourse on such subjects has taken on new urgency and sometimes shrillness in the past two or three decades. Text messaging, googling, Wikipedia, and sundry ...
Honors, honor codes, and academic integrity: where do they converge and diverge?(Forum on "Honors and Academic Integrity")(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Academic integrity has become a topic of increasing concern to faculty and administrators in colleges and universities across the country (Davis, Seeman, Chapman, & Rotstein, 2008; McCabe, Trevino, & Butterfield, 2002). Indeed, the level of concern has led to the development of highly ...
Academic dishonesty and the culture of assessment.(Forum on "Honors and Academic Integrity")(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Mention the escalation of academic dishonesty and most of us working in education are immediately inclined to whistle for our moral high horse. But too much moralistic tongue-clicking can blind us to the ways in which we who constitute the system contribute to the very malady we lament ....
Speeding is okay and cheating is cool.(Forum on "Honors and Academic Integrity")
Sep 22, 2008; ... Academic misbehavior occurs among all students--gifted students as well as the general student population. I believe that cheating, plagiarism, and other forms of academic dishonesty are supported by a pattern of rationalization similar to that which supports other common but questionable ...
Plato among the plagiarists: the plagiarist as perpetrator and victim.(Forum on "Honors and Academic Integrity")(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... When the Roman poet Martial applied the Latin term for the kidnapping of slaves and children ("plagiario") to those who stole his literary work (Epigrams I, 52), he became the first victim of plagiarism in its modern sense. Words are the author's children, and one can understand how the ...
Authenticity in Marco Polo's story and in honors student research: an aside from the early renaissance.(Forum on "Honors and Academic Integrity")(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Recently I read and skimmed editions of the writings of Marco Polo, including Komroff's The Travels of Marco Polo and Moule and Pelliot's encyclopedic The Description of the World. Apart from cataloguing details about Asian lands, peoples, and inventions fantastic in the eyes of early ...
On training excellent students in China and the United States.(Research Essays)(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION In many countries, the training of researchers who will be internationally competitive has become a primary objective, leading to extensive discussion of the curricula, educational content, and methods that may ensure a high level of student achievement. In this ...
Honors admissions criteria: how important are standardized tests?(Research Essays)(Essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In 2007 I had the rare pleasure of overseeing the transformation of our 45-year-old honors program into an honors college. The entrance requirements for our honors program had been designed to maximize the number of participants and largely boiled down to whether the student was interested ...
Is student participation in an honors program related to retention and graduation rates?(Research Essays)(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION Do students who participate in an honors program have higher retention and graduation rates in comparison to otherwise similar non-participants? This is the question we address, and we do so within the context of the Honors College at the University of Maine. We ...