Goals, Objectives, and the Responsibilities of OAI
The role of OAI is educational, informational, investigatory, and advisory. Its main duties and responsibilities are to reinforce the culture of academic integrity at ADU by:
- Raising awareness related to the issue of academic integrity
- Providing advice and counseling to students to help prevent violations of the provisions of AIP
- Producing and delivering tutorials and workshops on academic integrity for new and returning undergraduate and graduate students, and new faculty and staff
- Developing materials, displays, audio-visual material, printed material, and all other forms of communications related to the issue of academic integrity
- Highlighting ADU’s expectations for honorable behavior
- Working closely with Colleges and support units to coordinate and provide education about academic integrity for all members
of the campus community - Providing procedural expertise and support to College faculty and staff to ensure they appreciate the value of academic integrity
- Training faculty on plagiarism prevention systems such as Turnitin
- Proposing and implementing ways and means to discourage violations of AIP
- Processing allegations of academic integrity violations
- Coordinating University-wide academic integrity initiatives
- Maintaining and updating the University academic integrity Webpage
