The purpose of the program is to provide students a structured opportunity to learn from their experience, develop their intentional decision-making skills, and learn more about academic integrity and cheating at ISU. 

 

If successfully completed, the Alternative Resolution Program results in no disciplinary record with the university. This program focuses on the concept of academic integrity and how to develop decision making skills.

1. Pre-program assessment and reflection survey

2. Online course through Canvas on academic integrity

3. Meeting with an Academic Integrity Peer Mentor

4. Post-program assessment, reflection, and engagement survey

Students taking this course will: 

 

Identify: 

  • values that are most important to them  
  • the policies associated with academic conduct at Iowa State University  

 

Explore: 

  • how values align with the way in which academic work is completed  
  • your learning style, how this may have impacted your academic decision making, and resources needed for success
  • how to tell right from wrong 
  • your personal experience and what led to the decision to engage in academic misconduct  

 

Develop:  

  • critical thinking around their academic misconduct incident  
  • strategies for avoiding similar violations  

 

The following is an outline of the topics covered during the online academic integrity course:

  1. Welcome!
  2. Personal Values
  3. Introduction to Academic Integrity
  4. Academic Misconduct at Iowa State with specific activities on plagiarism and generative artificial intelligence
  5. Intentional Decision Making
  6. Learning Styles Assessment
  7. Campus Resources
  8. Applying Decision Making to Your Experience
  9. Wrap Up and Scheduling with a Mentor