Chapter 10: Academic Integrity Groups and Committees

As part of the centralized approach to academic integrity, some institutions have formal groups and committees that are actively involved in developing and implementing integrity programmes. They usually include faculty, students and administrative staff. In addition to these formal groups, the instrument makes reference to informal groups, and these may include clubs and societies devoted to academic integrity. These are likely to operate like other clubs and societies which are registered with the institution but are managed by students.

Students are the stakeholder group most affected by the academic integrity provision of the institutions and are usually the subjects of cases of to academic misconduct. Their involvement in academic integrity is important as it creates positive peer pressure and provides models which are believed will help to develop the culture of academic integrity (Sefcik et al., 2020). However, students are often not included in matters of academic integrity, as it is usually managed by a handful of professionals (Pavletić & Hammerbauer, 2022). These authors also note that