Employee Handbook

Employee Handbook 30 August 2023 2.1 Primary Responsibility The primary responsibility of the students, faculty, and administration is to create an atmosphere where the honesty of individuals will not be questioned. a. Faculty members are responsible for providing guidelines concerning cheating and plagiarism at the beginning of each course and should use precautionary measures and security in cases where cheating is likely to occur. b. Students are responsible for submitting their own work. Students who cooperate on oral or written examinations or work without authorization share the responsibility for violation of academic principles, and the students are subject to disciplinary action even when one of the students is not enrolled in the course where the violation occurred. 2.2 Procedural Fairness Faculty members and administration are responsible for procedural fairness to the accused student or students in accordance with the following procedure: a. Faculty members who suspect that prohibited academic conduct has occurred in their classes have an initial responsibility for informing the student or students involved of their suspicion, for allowing them a fair opportunity to refute them, and for making an impartial judgment as to whether any prohibited academic conduct occurred only upon the basis of substantial evidence. b. Faculty members have the prerogative of determining the penalty for prohibited academic conduct in their classes. Faculty members may fail the student for the assignment, test, or course involved, or they may recommend that the student drop the course in question, or these penalties may be varied with the gravity of the offense and the circumstances of the particular case. c. In addition to the prerogative above, faculty members may recommend a disciplinary sanction to the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. The Associate Dean may impose academic warning or probation or may recommend suspension or expulsion to the Student Conduct Committee. d. A student who has received a penalty or a disciplinary action for prohibited academic conduct may appeal the decision to the Conduct Appeals Committee. The student must consult with the instructor and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, in sequence, to resolve the conflict. Then, the student may request a hearing by the Academic Standards Committee. The student may be suspended or expelled for prohibited academic conduct by the Student Conduct Committee in accordance with the following procedure: