Academic Integrity Peer Educators
Find out how Academic Integrity (AI) peer educators promote academic integrity on campus and consider becoming one yourself.
An AI peer educator is a volunteer position with the Academic Integrity Office for 5 hours per week. See below for details on how to apply.
Role of peers
- Participate in the delivery of the Academic Integrity Seminar
- Create and give academic integrity presentations
- Consult with students about academic integrity
- Advise students who have been alleged with academic integrity violations
- Work with university community members to enhance the academic integrity culture at UCSD
Requirements
To be an AI Peer, students should have:
- The ability to work both independently and within dyads and teams
- Basic oral presentation and communication skills and an interest in developing these skills further
- A desire to exercise leadership and create organizational change around the issue of academic integrity
- A professional demeanor and ability to interact with diverse groups at all levels of the university
- The commitment and dedication to meet the AI Peer responsibilities
Benefits
AI Peers develop:
- Their capacity for leadership by stimulating integrity dialogues and challenging students on their academic conduct
- Communication skills by presenting to diverse audiences, small and large
- Ethical decision-making strategies
- A sense of personal, professional, and institutional ethics and their complicated intersection
- Program development skills
Apply now!
If you are interested, complete the application and mail, email or deliver it to:
Academic Integrity Office
301 University Center, 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0069, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0069
aic@ucsd.edu
Note:
Those accepted into the AI peer educator program must be available to complete training prior to beginning as a peer educator. If you are unable to commit to the training and weekly hours, you might want to consider joining the AIM! Student Organization instead.