08.02 Integritas Akademik

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to fundamental values that guide conduct in academic life. Although these values may be familiar, they need to be reinforced through self-reflection, evaluation, and ongoing efforts to improve.

Six Fundamental Values

• Honesty: Be truthful in your actions and work, from personal conduct to interactions in classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and other settings. Honesty is a foundation of integrity and a value to cultivate throughout life.
• Trust: Be dependable and safeguard the confidence others place in you. For example, if you are given access to laboratory equipment, take care of it. Trustworthy conduct helps others feel secure.
• Fairness: Act justly, accurately acknowledge others’ work, follow academic-integrity policies, and help protect the institution’s reputation.
• Respect: Treat others and their opinions with consideration, even when you disagree. Respectful disagreement can improve ideas; it should not involve belittling others. Respect should be mutual.
• Responsibility: Own your actions and try to prevent mistakes. Students are responsible for learning and pursuing knowledge seriously, both on and off campus.
• Courage: Speak up about what is true and act according to appropriate values and norms, doing so politely even when it feels uncomfortable.

Applying the Values

• Keep honesty in mind as both a personal and communal practice.
• Treat shared resources and entrusted access responsibly.
• Recognize others’ contributions and comply with academic policies.
• Listen respectfully to differing opinions.
• Take learning commitments seriously—not only those tied to grades or formal requirements.
• Remind one another of these responsibilities and continually improve personal conduct.

The lecture illustrates responsibility with a hypothetical attendance example: even if attendance is not recorded, required for an exam, or counted toward grades, attending a lecture remains part of a student’s commitment to learning. It encourages students to reflect on whether their actions match that commitment.

Speakers and Sources

• Presenter: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Umar Fauzi, as identified in the video metadata.
• Source cited: International Center of Academic Integrity, whose definition of academic integrity is discussed.