Academic Integrity

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 errorson the part of unaware, ill-informed or unprepared students, • Don’t report. Teach them how to do it properly. • Deliberate effortsto 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 • Establish the Allegation: Begin the Violation of Academic Integrity (VAI) Form; provide documentation; assign an Academic Consequence. • 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: • Explain the allegation. • Hear the student. • Explain the Academic Consequence and VAI Process. • Explain that the student should continue to complete work until the issue has been adjudicated. • You and student both sign VAI Form.

Student Meets With Supervisor. • Send the form and documentation to your immediate Supervisor. • Immediate Supervisor Contacts the Student for a meeting. • No response or cannot reach the student, the Immediate Supervisor will render a decision and send the VAI Form to Judicial Affairs.

Student is informed of her/his options. • Student can explain or offer evidence to refute or question the allegation. • The Supervisor will render a decision. • If the student accepts the Academic Consequence. • If the student does not accept.

Judicial Affairs • Judicial Affairs will contact the student. • If the student admits to the allegation, JA will render a judicial consequence and document the outcome.

If the student denies the allegation • JA will set a hearing date with the Student Disciplinary Committee. • May request further information and documentation prior to the hearing. • 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 • Cleared of the Violation • Found in Violation • Written Warning. • Found in Violation • Additional Sanctions

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