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At campuses with honor codes, academic integrity is often defined as a method of providing an honest, trusting, learning environment for the students and faculty at those campuses, in addition to helping students graduate with a deeper sense of personal integrity.

The Center for Academic Integrity provides a useful values framework for academic integrity, outlining it as honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. In fact, they provide a document at their web site called The Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity, reporting on research done by individuals affiliated with the Center for Academic Integrity.

In "Integrity: Academic and Political--A Letter to My Students" by Bill M. Taylor, Professor of Political Science at Oakton Community College (posted at the Center for Academic Integrity web site), the sentiment that personal integrity of the individual is both developed over time and is an essential part of the educational process is eloquently presented in Professor Taylor's words.

Habits students develop while attending high school, college, and graduate school often follow them into the "real world," which can, in turn, affect the quality of the work they do and the perceptions others develop about their personal integrity.

The College of Wooster's Code of Academic Integrity provides a framework at Wooster to help students learn to and/or continue to develop their own personal integrity. The College of Wooster Libraries are behind the Code 100%.

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