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Ensuring Academic Integrity: Guidelines and Processes for Faculty and Students

This document outlines the essential procedures and expectations to uphold academic integrity at the university. It emphasizes the importance of clear communication regarding expectations in the syllabus and during the first lecture, ensuring consistency in addressing violations. Faculty are encouraged to use prescribed procedures for handling violations, including evidence collection and appropriate penalties. The text also details definitions of violations such as cheating and fabrication, along with respective penalties and settlement procedures. For questions, faculty and students are directed to contact the Dean’s Office or the Academic Integrity Board.

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Ensuring Academic Integrity: Guidelines and Processes for Faculty and Students

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  1. Academic Integrity Process Ron Smelser Professor and Associate DeanDean’s Office

  2. What Should We Do? • Be Very Clear About Expectations • Syllabus • First Lecture • Be Consistent • Use the Prescribed Procedures for Violations • Follow Through on Violations • Questions – Contact Dean’s Office, Dean of Students Office, or Academic Integrity Board (AIB) Chair – Rick Lejk

  3. Policy Statement #105The Code of Student Academic Integrity • III. DEFINITIONS OF VIOLATIONS • A. CHEATING. Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices in any academic exercise. This definition includes unauthorized communication of information during an academic exercise. • B. FABRICATION AND FALSIFICATION. Intentional and unauthorized alteration or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise. Falsification is a matter of altering information, while fabrication is a matter of inventing or counterfeiting information for use in any academic exercise. • http://www.legal.uncc.edu/policies/ps-105.html

  4. Handling Violations • Collect the Evidence • Contact the Dean of Students Office • Verify Prior Offenses • First Offense • Meet with Student and Present the Evidence • Action Warranted – Settlement Procedure

  5. Handling Violations (cont’d)Settlement Procedure • Fill Out Settlement Form with Penalty • Student has 72 Hours to Consider • Student Accepts and Signs Form in Presence of Faculty Member • Send Copy to Dean of Students Office • Kept on File for Five Years

  6. Handling Violations (cont’d)Settlement Procedure (cont’d) • Student Declines Penalty or Penalty is Greater than an F in the Course • Faculty Contacts Chair of the AIB • AIB Hearing is conducted • Second or Greater Offense or Penalty is Greater than an F in the Course • Faculty Contacts Chair of the AIB • AIB Hearing is conducted

  7. IV. Penalties • Settlement ProcedurePenalties • a. formal warning • b. a reduced grade for the assignment • c. a reduced grade for the entire course • Second Offenses and Some First Offenses • d. Disciplinary suspension from the University for a designated period of time. • e. A grade of "F" or "U" with a designation "X" on the academic transcript indicating that this is because of dishonesty. (Time Specified)

  8. What has Happened? • AIB Actions for 2009

  9. What has Happened? • Hearing Outcomes for 2009

  10. What Should We Do? • Be Very Clear About Expectations • Syllabus • First Lecture • Be Consistent • Use the Prescribed Procedures for Violations • Follow Through on Violations • Questions – Contact Dean’s Office, Dean of Students Office, or AIB Chair – Rick Lejk

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