What do you mean by Academic integrity and excellence ?

Being honest to oneself  and others! Being humble, open and impartial to knowledge and wisdom ( non-ideological), accepting the fact that what you know is very little and what you don't know is huge and vast. Always be on the learning mode , which means learning is life long, a la cradle to the coffin!

It is your moral soundness and consciousness as well , uniting all the good in you to achieve a particular goal , keeping in view to be honest. It would definitely leads one to the excellence.