 You know if you're a student and you're watching this video and you're thinking you know I know this stuff or this is boring and I learned this in high school. I would really encourage you to think again We penalize Dozens of students every semester because they violated the Binghamton University student academic honesty code Those violations can mean you fail a course. They can mean that you're suspended for from the university They can mean that your degree is revoked or that you're expelled from school Take this seriously the rules that we have might be different from the way your high school Set its standards and it's very very important that you know our rules since you are a student here I think is an integrity is important in your whole life and academic integrity is important in your professional life Who you are and how other people look at you is a function of whether or not they can trust you And I think integrity and academic integrity comes down to ensuring that people trust that what you say Has truth has validity is well thought out And is your work and if you think about the university as a place where people are pursuing and creating knowledge Then I say academic integrity is important because that knowledge should be There should be accountability for that knowledge. There should be Trusted in that knowledge Academic integrity is important because it gives us gives all the students a level playing field one of the things that universities are about is valuing ideas and that is whether the person creating the idea is a faculty member or a sophomore in a class and One of the ways we act with integrity is to make sure that we represent our work as our own and Represent others contributions for what they are as well students should understand that their ideas are of value and so are other people's ideas and that there is a place where we have to respect that and Being educated about academic integrity will show you exactly what the rules are students come to the university In order to expand their horizons to be exposed to ideas But to then build on those ideas and develop their minds and their brains and have creative Creative ideas creative understandings to reach a higher level on the basis of the work of other people Right, so the work of other people is the foundation of your learning But your task as students is to go beyond that to make the next generation of thinkers Next generation of doers the next generation of you know brilliant scientists or Leaders and the way you do that is by having your own ideas So academic integrity is really important. You want to stand out. What is your idea? In many cases, I believe students are just unaware just ignorant of the fact that what they are doing is Not permitted in in our arena. I think for students The most important thing is a lot of students don't know that they're plagiarizing That's why it's so important to learn the rules and to make sure that you do have a basic understanding of the process I think that students often get in trouble When there's very little time left to do something and it's kind of last minute and Google searches are there Wikipedia is there cut and paste is there and if you have very very little time You're going to do what you think you need to do in order to get the assignment done My advice would be take advantage of all the resources you have available to collect the information Google Wikipedia but also scholarly journals and databases and indexes that are in the library The key is as you collect that information try to copy points and items or ideas Don't copy whole pieces of paragraph because it is too easy to copy and paste and then forget to go back and delete Segments that were really just there as reminders oftentimes cases of plagiarism that I've seen are often inadvertent mistakes Honest mistakes where copying and pasting leads to an inadvertent inclusion of something that wasn't correctly cited We have to always be on the lookout for copying and pasting that goes wrong The biggest advice I would give to students with regard to plagiarism academic honesty dishonesty What have you is to educate yourself on? academic integrity Educator yourself on what plagiarism is educate yourself on the policies and procedures of Particular campus particularly Binghamton University, but I have would have two big pieces of advice The first is to be familiar with the code So be familiar with all of the rules that apply to academic integrity And the second would be if you're not sure if there's any question in your mind to ask someone and ask It's better to find out sooner rather than later Oftentimes the instructor will give very direct Advice that you can't use an outside source and students will use an outside source. So If your instructor be really clear on what your instructor the instructors Instructions are and follow them Be sure that you're following What the syllabus says and what your instructor has said? other things that Can promote academic integrity is By realizing that when you get a topic that you have to research or even write about that doesn't require research If you're not clear about what it is that you have to do Make use of the office hours of the professor who'll be glad to clarify I can't tell you how many times students have come to my office and said I don't understand what I have to do I'm totally confused and Because we have experience explaining Finding out what it is. It's causing difficulty difficulty lots of times students leave that office empowered Relieved and ready to complete an assignment. I think students need to reach out to their faculty members if they have any questions and One of the ways I see this the most is when students might work together in groups Does your faculty member know that that math homework sheet? represents the work of everyone rather than the work of just one person if you hand a paper to someone else and they Substantially edit it Enough so it really isn't a representation of work that you did solely by yourself For some faculty members that might be okay because they want people to learn from each other and work collaborative Lee for other faculty members They might be uncomfortable and say no for this assignment. I want this based on your efforts alone so that I can gauge those Either is an appropriate answer, but it's really important that students and faculty be on the same page for what those standards are if you're in a class and You have to do research and part of the class is not teaching you research It would be worth your while to ask your professor to do a session on plagiarizing If you understand the basic rules if you know how to cite sources if you know how to Summarize and paraphrase and do quotes and if you understand that any information That's taken from any source that isn't yours needs to be cited and you understand the format for citing Information then you're covered and the best the one thing to remember is if you're in doubt site Everything it's better to have hundreds of citations in your paper than to have few or to guess Should I cite this should I not cite it if you're not sure cite it even seasoned students and faculty members can learn a Thing or two about academic honesty academic integrity and plagiarism and in all sorts of categories because it is an intricate and very Thought-provoking topic because there are so many different aspects of that particular thing in this age of technology and Information you're going to be learning new material in any career that you're in for the rest of your life You will be a self-directed learner You'll have to know how to do research and probably in a lot of professions that come out of this university You will be doing research of your own and it has to be reliable information Like academic integrity in the sciences is very similar to other disciplines I think there's a lot of writing issues associated copying and pasting in the sciences We also have to be concerned about data collection whether or not the methods that you're using and the data that you're collecting is not Only accurate and precise but also that you don't Take the data further than it's intended to go By either Fudging the data, which would be particularly bad or in some cases you can take data and just do your interpretation further than it should go We should always be sensitive to the fact that the data is the truth We need to report the data first and then do our discussion after that in my profession, which is teaching freshman engineers How to research that's part of my job It's the importance of reliable information and in engineering that becomes very important because when a lot of decisions are made Based on research lives can be at stake Extremely valuable and costly Education here at painting so why would you want to diminish the value in that in any way shape or form? so I would just tell students and encourage students to gain knowledge gain understanding and then attempt to achieve your goals with honor