Planning is underway for the 35th annual ICAI conference. This conference brings together educators, administrators, and industry experts committed to academic integrity in education to share new research and best practices. We hope you will join us in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico as we celebrate our shared culture of integrity!
Registration will open for the 2027 ICAI Annual Conference in fall 2026! This year’s theme, Integrity: Our Shared Culture, invites us to come together—sharing ideas, building strategies, and advancing a culture of integrity in education.
Integrity is strengthened when we learn from one another. This year's 2027 ICAI Annual Pre-Conference sessions will be held Thursday, February 25th on the campus of Universidad de Monterrey. Join us!
As generative AI reshapes higher education, fostering academic integrity requires more than policies and detection tools - it requires reimagining the writing process itself. This interactive workshop explores how writing labs can humanize writing by emphasizing drafting, reflection, collaboration, and feedback. Participants will examine research from an innovative writing lab initiative, explore adaptable strategies that promote authentic learning, and develop practical ideas for cultivating a shared culture of integrity within their own institutional contexts.
Academic integrity's most trusted survey instruments were written in English, for Anglophone institutions, and carry assumptions that rarely survive translation intact. This hands-on lab draws on a full adaptation of a widely used integrity survey into two additional languages: forward translation, blind back-translation, expert panel validation, ethics review, and proportional sampling across ten faculties. Participants work with real items—running a live translation-and-review cycle, scoring conceptual equivalence against a rubric, diagnosing authentic failure cases, and building a governance checklist for their own context. Monolingual participants gain a sharper view of assumptions they had treated as neutral.
In this workshop, an international team of facilitators will introduce a researched-backed framework for evaluating the effectiveness and impact of campus academic integrity policy and process. After briefly describing how their framework builds on prior research, facilitators will introduce a rubric that is generalizable across various international, institutional campus contexts. Participants will be given time to practice applying the rubric to their own (or a colleague’s) institution. Facilitators and participants will use the rubric as a tool for improving policy, and as a heuristic for clarifying campus cultural and material constraints commonly associated with integrity work.
Written assessment tasks remain central in higher education because they make disciplinary knowledge, argumentation, synthesis, and use of evidence visible (Shitile et al., 2026). Yet GenAI has made it increasingly difficult to treat the final written product as sufficient evidence of student learning and authorship (Williams, 2025). This workshop asks how written assessment tasks can be redesigned to make evidence of learning more visible throughout the writing process. Participants will analyze their own tasks, experience a short GenAI assisted writing and peer feedback cycle, and redesign a task using multiple sources of evidence of learning.
Artificial intelligence has reshaped academic integrity and created new challenges for identifying and investigating suspected AI use. Drawing from more than 3,600 AI-related cases reviewed at Louisiana State University, this interactive workshop will provide practical strategies for evaluating evidence, examining writing and version histories, and conducting fair investigations. Through hands-on activities and case scenarios, participants will practice distinguishing indicators from evidence and explore how consistent investigative practices can strengthen a shared culture of integrity.
Call for proposals for the 2027 International Center for Academic Integrity conference will open August 12, 2026.
There will be no live-streamed, virtual, or remote presentations. Presenters submitting proposals must be prepared to deliver this content in-person at the conference in Monterrey.
Theme areas: Conference proposals are welcomed on any topic related to academic integrity. Presentations must be submitted under one of the following theme areas:
Presentations will be 40 minutes (with approximately 30-35 minutes for the presentation and 5-10 minutes for questions). Presentations may be led by no more than 2 people. Presentations consisting of undergraduate students may consist of 3 people. We encourage project acknowledgements for contributors that are not presenting or in cases where more than 2 people were involved.
Panel submissions will be accepted, with no more than 5 panelists per session. A clear description of topics that will be discussed should be listed.
Note: In order to create opportunities for as many people as possible, no more than 2 submissions should bear your name. If your name is submitted for multiple program proposals; you will only be allowed to be lead on one program. The Conference Program Committee will communicate with you if they accept multiple programs in which you are lead author so you can determine which to accept.
Proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
Consider Volunteering: Looking for ways to get involved with ICAI? The conference committee is seeking volunteers to serve as program proposal reviewers. Program proposals will be distributed to reviewers around September 21, 2026. Reviewers will have 2 weeks to submit their scores. Please consider volunteering to review program proposals and help shape the conference program.
SPANISH VERSION:
La convocatoria de propuestas para la conferencia 2027 del International Center for Academic Integrity se abrirá el 12 de agosto de 2026.
No habrá presentaciones transmitidas en vivo, virtuales ni remotas. Los presentadores que envíen propuestas deben estar preparados para presentar este contenido en persona en la conferencia en Monterrey.
Áreas temáticas: Se aceptan propuestas de conferencias sobre cualquier tema relacionado con la integridad académica. Las presentaciones deben enviarse bajo una de las siguientes áreas temáticas:
Las presentaciones tendrán una duración de 40 minutos (con aproximadamente 30-35 minutos para la presentación y 5-10 minutos para preguntas). Las presentaciones podrán estar dirigidas por no más de 2 personas. Las presentaciones compuestas por estudiantes de pregrado podrán contar con 3 personas. Fomentamos el reconocimiento de las contribuciones de quienes no sean presentadores o en los casos en que hayan participado más de 2 personas.
Se aceptarán propuestas de paneles, con no más de 5 panelistas por sesión. Debe incluirse una descripción clara de los temas que se discutirán.
Nota: Con el fin de crear oportunidades para el mayor número posible de personas, no deben presentarse más de 2 propuestas con su nombre. Si su nombre se presenta para múltiples propuestas del programa, solo se le permitirá ser responsable principal de una de ellas. El Comité del Programa de la Conferencia se comunicará con usted si acepta múltiples programas en los que usted sea el autor principal, para que pueda determinar cuál aceptar.
Las propuestas se evaluarán en función de los siguientes criterios:
Considere ser voluntario: ¿Busca formas de colaborar con ICAI? El comité de la conferencia busca voluntarios para revisar las propuestas de programas. Estas propuestas se enviarán a los revisores alrededor del 21 de septiembre de 2026, y ellos dispondrán de dos semanas para enviar sus evaluaciones. Le invitamos a participar como voluntario en la revisión de propuestas y a contribuir así a definir el programa de la conferencia.
Help recognize the good work of your colleagues and students in academic integrity by nominating them for an ICAI award. Below you can review the criteria for each award. Recipients will be announced at the 2027 Annual Conference in Monterrey, Mexico.
Contact Chris Bryson at bryson@uark.edu or Camilla Roberts at croberts@academicintegrity.org if you have questions about the awards.
The ICAI Campus of Integrity Award recognizes one campus or institution for its outstanding ability to create a culture of integrity during the previous academic year.
All ICAI members are invited to nominate an institution they feel is deserving of the Campus of Integrity Award. Award winners must be ICAI members (individual or part of an institutional membership).
Criteria for nomination:
The Campus of Integrity award is intended for institutions that have had success with a program or initiative to create or mold a culture of integrity among the constituents of their own institution.
Nomination Requirements:
The ICAI Student of Merit Award is given to a current student (either pre-college, undergraduate, or graduate student) who has demonstrated passion and motivation towards creating a culture of academic integrity.
All ICAI members are invited to nominate a student they feel is deserving of the Student of Merit Award.
Nomination Requirements:
The Exemplar of Integrity Award recognizes one individual for demonstrating courage and perseverance in championing the ideals of academic integrity in the face of opposition and adversity.
All ICAI members are invited to nominate an individual they feel is deserving of the Waldvogel Exemplar of Integrity Award. Award winners must be ICAI members (individual or part of an institutional membership).
Criteria for nomination:
The Exemplar of Integrity Award is intended for an individual who has demonstrated the sixth fundamental value - courage - to champion the ideals of academic integrity in building a culture of integrity.
Nomination Requirements:
The Practitioner or Administrator of the Year Award recognizes and honors academic and practitioner members of ICAI who have provided outstanding service to their institution or to the community regarding academic integrity during the past academic year or more.
All ICAI members are invited to nominate individuals they feel are deserving of the Practitioner or Administrator of the Year Award. Award winners must be ICAI members (individual or part of an institutional membership).
Nomination Requirements:
No self-nominations will be accepted.
The McCabe Research of the Year Award is named for Donald McCabe, founding member of ICAI and leader in academic integrity research. This award recognizes and honors an outstanding recent research project (including but not limited to dissertation research, grant research, or other scholarly work) regarding academic integrity during the past academic year or more.
All ICAI members are invited to nominate a project they feel is deserving of the McCabe Research of the Year Award. Award winners must be ICAI members (individual or part of an institutional membership).
Nomination Requirements:
Self-nominations will be accepted.
The Tricia Bertram Gallant Award for Outstanding Lifetime Service is named for Dr. Bertram Gallant, who has consistently gone above and beyond while working toward a culture of integrity across the globe. This award recognizes and honors academic and practitioner members of ICAI who have provided outstanding service to ICAI regarding academic integrity over their lifetimes. Award recipients represent the most influential individuals in ICAI’s efforts in academic integrity. It is the highest honor to be given by ICAI.
All ICAI members are invited to nominate individuals they feel are deserving of the Tricia Bertram Gallant Award for Outstanding Lifetime Service. Award winners must be ICAI members (individual or part of an institutional membership).
Criteria for nomination:
The Tricia Bertram Gallant Award for Outstanding Lifetime Service is intended for individuals with at least 10 years of documented accomplishments in service to ICAI and who have had a significant impact on ICAI during that time. Those with a significant impact in a shorter time period may also be considered.
The impact may be demonstrated in one or more of the following ways:
Nomination Requirements:
No self-nominations will be accepted.
Questions?
Contact Chris Bryson at bryson@uark.edu or Camilla Roberts at croberts@academicintegrity.org if you have questions about the awards.
Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest city and the capital of the state of Nuevo León, is nestled in the breathtaking Sierra Madre mountain range of northeastern Mexico. Home to more than three million people, the metropolitan area is also home to the beautiful campus of Universidad de Monterrey, who will be hosting us in 2027.
Cancellation Policy: A full refund will be made if registration is canceled, in writing, on or before January 29, 2027. An administrative fee of $50 will be assessed if registration is canceled, in writing, between January 30 and February 12, 2027. February 13 and beyond, 2027, no refunds will be given for cancellations or no shows.
Camilla Roberts, Kansas State University, Co-chair
Dawn Lesperance, Lewis-Clark State College, Co-chair
Blaire Wilson, Emory University, (ICAI President & Board liaison)
Chris Bryson, University of Arkansas
Liliana del Carmen Almaguer Arroyo, Universidad de Monterrey
Luz Herlinda Godina Silva, Universidad de Monterrey
Vanessa Earp, Kent State University
Amanda McKenzie, University of Waterloo
Patricia Meyer, Devry University
Jennie Miron, Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (BOD)
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