Reminder: An essay contest "Academic honesty"
by Chris Terwilliger - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
The Ad-Hoc Committee on Academic Honesty is sponsoring an essay contest on academic honesty. The Provost's Office will provide four awards of $200 each to the four best essays: two for undergraduate and graduate students and two for faculty and staff. All submissions must be submitted to Newspeak during B term for publication. Essayists may wish to address some of the following topics: the state of academic honesty at WPI, student and faculty attitudes about academic honesty, the effectiveness of the present academic honesty policy, a framework for an improved academic honesty policy, or whether we should have an "honor code" at WPI and why. Essays with the desired scope are likely to have a length of 1000-1500 words. The Ad-Hoc Committee will appoint judges to select the winning essays based on the following criteria:
- overall thoughtfulness
- the extent to which positions are supported by evidence
- recognition and integration of both student and faculty concerns
- the extent to which positions relate specifically to the characteristics of the WPI community and the nature of a WPI education
- recognition of the context of academic honesty in the larger society
Results of the student survey on academic dishonesty at WPI, along with other resource material on academic honesty and honor codes, are on reserve in Gordon Library for all members of the WPI community. Any questions about the contest should be addressed to Greg Snow (grsnow@wpi) or Prof. Chrys Terwilliger (ctwig@wpi).
