Transcript Violations of Academic Integrity Power Point

Academic Integrity
Guidelines for Reporting
Violations of Academic Integrity
Committee Members
• Co-Chairs: Charlene Latimer and Michael McKeown
• Ray Cornelius, Chris Gephardt, Holly Hollins,
Kathleen Lazarus, Andrea Reese, Tom Swain,
Betty Green, Martha Driscoll, Karla Moore, Brandi
Horn, Tanika Clemons Maxine Hicks, Verona Earl
Amy Brackel, Linda Waymire, Terrance Hilbert,
and Keith Kennedy.
Academic Integrity
Committee
• The Committee was formed in 2011.
• Purpose: To bring clarification to the
process of reporting violations of
Academic Integrity.
• Surveys
• Research
• Best Practices
Goal for Academic
Integrity Code
• Shaping their character.
– Upholding high standards for ourselves
and for our students.
– Modeling character.
– Ignoring lapses in integrity, we are
accepting that behavior?
Best Practices
• Designing tests and assignments.
• Establish policies and procedures.
• Clearly and explicitly state your
intended penalties in your course
syllabus.
• Highlight ethical issues as they
relate to our personal and
professional lives.
• Proctor your tests.
• Use Turn-It-In and other means to
identify violations.
What Violations of Academic
Integrity should be reported?
• Teachable Moment or Deliberate?
• Honest errors on the part of unaware, illinformed or unprepared students,
– Don’t report. Teach them how to do it
properly.
• Deliberate efforts to cheat on tests or to
present someone else’s work as one’s own.
– Report them as Violations of Academic
Integrity.
You are not the Bad Guy
• Identify and discipline students who
choose to violate academic integrity.
Report them.
• Understand that reporting a Violation
of Academic Integrity is a serious
matter that becomes part of a
student’s record here at the College.
How to report Violations
of Academic Integrity
1. Establish the Allegation: Begin the Violation of
Academic Integrity (VAI) Form; provide
documentation; assign an Academic Consequence.
2. Document: Describe the alleged violation on the
VAI Form and check the categories that apply:
Plagiarism, Cheating on an Exam, Cheating by
sharing information, and Other.
Assigning an Academic
Consequence
• Any and all Academic Consequences
for Violations of Academic Integrity
must be consistent with policies
explicitly stated in that instructor’s
course syllabus.
Meeting with the
Student:
1. Explain the allegation.
2. Hear the student.
3. Explain the Academic Consequence and
VAI Process.
4. Explain that the student should
continue to complete work until the
issue has been adjudicated.
5. You and student both sign VAI Form.
Student Meets With
Supervisor.
1. Send the form and documentation to your
immediate Supervisor.
2. Immediate Supervisor Contacts the
Student for a meeting.
3. No response or cannot reach the student,
the Immediate Supervisor will render a
decision and send the VAI Form to
Judicial Affairs.
4. Student is informed of her/his options.
5. Student can explain or offer evidence to
refute or question the allegation.
6. The Supervisor will render a decision.
a. If the student accepts the Academic
Consequence.
b. If the student does not accept.
Judicial Affairs
1. Judicial Affairs will contact the
student.
2. If the student admits to the
allegation, JA will render a judicial
consequence and document the
outcome.
If the student denies
the allegation
1. JA will set a hearing date with the
Student Disciplinary Committee.
2. May request further information and
documentation prior to the hearing.
3. Every effort will be made to proceed
quickly within ten business days from the
date of the report.
The Student Disciplinary
Committee
• Representatives from Faculty, Campus
Safety, and the Administration.
• Student informed of the decision and
document the outcome.
• If the student disagrees…may request an
administrative review by the Vice
President of Academic Affairs and/or the
Vice President of Student Development.
Outcomes of the
Judicial Affairs Hearing
1. Cleared of the Violation
2. Found in Violation
a. Written Warning.
b. Found in Violation
c. Additional Sanctions