Crafting Ethical Scholarship - A Practical Guide to Academic Integrity and the Mission of Higher Education

A timely, evidence-based guide to reclaiming academic integrity and the mission of higher education.

Today's academic integrity policies are punitive, ineffective, and entirely focused on student misconduct. Crafting Ethical Scholarship shifts the paradigm away from compliance by exploring how expert writers develop authentic academic integrity through relationships within disciplinary communities. Doubling down on student misconduct won't solve today's AI-powered crisis of academic cheating. What college faculty and administrators need is an alternative to the current lose-lose strategy, one where academic integrity is recognized as a road map to achieving higher education's highest goals.

Crafting Ethical Scholarship recenters higher education as an inspiring place where expert thinkers create, explain, and build new knowledge. Coauthors Karyn E. Kessler, Paul J. Michiels, and Paul M. Rogers take readers inside the writing processes and life journeys of award-winning scholars across disciplines, showing how real academic integrity functions and contributes to the production of knowledge. The book offers a radical new model of academic integrity that relies on community and relationships to build diverse, equitable, and inclusive institutions.

About the author

Karyn Kessler is Associate Teaching Professor of Linguistics and Director of the English for Multilingual Students Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Paul Michiels is Instructor in the University Writing Program at George Washington University.

Paul M. Rogers is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Director of the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Product details

• Authors: Karyn Elizabeth Kessler, Paul Jarod Michiels, Paul Michael Rogers
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.05.2026
• EAN: 9780520410282
• ISBN: 978-0-520-41028-2
• No. of pages: 358
• Illustrations: 11 b-w figures and 8 tables
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, Organization & management of education, Writing & editing guides, Educational administration and organization, Educational strategies & policy, Writing and editing guides, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, Educational strategies and policy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Academic & Scholarly