Release date: Feb. 13, 2004
Contact: Deb Hammacher, Associate Director, University Media Relations,
at 404-727-0644 or dhammac@emory.edu

Oxford Hosts Academic Integrity Conference

News reports are periodically inundated with stories of rampant cheating among college students, but rarely is anything said about students who are taking steps to bolster academic integrity. Such a group of students is coming together at Emory's Oxford College Feb. 20-21 to see what they can do to foster academic integrity among their peers. Students from a select group of liberal arts institutions are coming together at Oxford College's "Academic Honor 2004: A Student-Centered Conference" to discuss challenges, rewards and strategies of creating an honorable campus community.

One feature of particular note is a mock honor code trial to look at best practices with a sometimes controversial tool in enforcing academic integrity. Sessions will address educating students and faculty about honor codes, technology and cheating, and the challenges of being peer judges or faculty/staff advisors. Confirmed participants thus far include students and faculty from Birmingham Southern, Emory, LaGrange, Lyon, Wesleyan and Davidson colleges and University of the South.

The core of the conference is on Saturday, Feb. 21. The keynote address is 5:30-7 p.m. that evening from Nina Dulin-Mallory, president of the Center for Academic Integrity and professor of English at LaGrange College. Oxford College is located on Emory's original 1836 campus in Oxford, Ga., 40 miles east of Atlanta.

For more information on the conference, call 770-784-8391 or view the conference brochure at www.emory.edu/central/NEWS/Releases/Academic_Integrity_2004.pdf

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