SENATE Resolution 04/05-04: Sanctions for Academic Misconduct

WHEREAS, The UAH Faculty considers academic misconduct to be a serious campus-wide problem and concern, and

WHEREAS, The UAH Faculty Handbook explains that faculty have the legal authority to select grades for academic misconduct, stating that “Faculty members posses the well-established prerogative to deal with academic misconduct committed by a student in a course by applying an academic penalty within the context of that course” (8.32), and

WHEREAS, the Faculty Handbook states that professors have a professional obligation to uphold academic honesty, especially seen in its adoption of the AAUP’s “Statement of Professional Ethics” which calls for professors to “make every reasonable effort to foster honest academic conduct and to ensure that their evaluations of students reflect each student’s true merit” (7.15.2), and

WHEREAS, UAH has no standardized sanction for the academic misconduct as defined in the Student Handbook.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED

That the faculty Senate requests that the following sanctions be implemented when a student has committed academic misconduct
1) The student may be given an F in the class or on the paper/project.

2) All significant acts of academic misconduct as determined by the faculty must be reported on the Academic Misconduct Form. This reporting does not preclude faculty member’s prerogative to deal with academic misconduct to apply an academic penalty within the context of that course.

3) For any incidence of academic misconduct selected via the judicial process the student will be assigned to attend a mandatory one-day workshop regarding academic ethics/honesty, to be held on campus before the end of the semester in which the case is resolved or next available class.
The student must schedule participation in the workshop with judicial affairs no more than 6 months after a decision is made

4) On the second documented and confirmed episode of academic misconduct, after attending the workshop, the student will be expelled from UAH.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT .

All faculty be notified of this change in policy and provided with easy access to the reporting form. The student and faculty handbook be revised to reflect the above change in policy.