Chapter 11: Structural Resources

Ideally, structural resources must be present for institutions to have effective academic integrity programmes. These are represented by an integrity office or designated team with a mission statement and full-time staff. The personnel should carry out activities that are aimed at developing academic integrity competencies of staff, students and administrators, and providing solutions when challenges arise. Structural resources are important, as one characteristic of an institution which practises academic integrity is that academic integrity must be seen and heard on a campus. The presence of structural resources is also a signal of that institution's commitment to ensuring that academic integrity is given the attention that it deserves. According to McKenzie (2024), the work of academic integrity ‘cannot be successfully done off the side of someone's desk or in the shadows’. This chapter delves briefly into the literature on the structural resources available for academic integrity in various institutions then presents, analyses and discusses data collected by Subscale 3 of the Academic Integrity Rating System.