Academic Honesty

Faculty and students share responsibility for maintaining academic honesty and protecting the integrity of the Hasan School of Business learning community.

The Hasan School of Business (HSB) has the responsibility to ensure that grades earned are indicative of the knowledge and skill level of each student. Acts of academic misconduct make it impossible to fulfill this responsibility, and they weaken our society. Faculty and students share responsibility for ensuring academic honesty in our college community, and will make a concerted effort to fulfill the following responsibilities:

Shared Responsibility

Maintaining Academic Integrity

Faculty and students each play an important role in maintaining an honest and equitable academic environment.

Faculty Responsibilities

Faculty have the responsibility to ensure that academic honesty is maintained in their classroom. In the absence of academic honesty it is impossible to assign accurate grades and to ensure that honest students are not at a competitive disadvantage. Faculty members are expected to:

Explain the meaning of academic misconduct to their students.
Direct classes in a way that discourages cheating, plagiarism, and other dishonest acts of conduct.
Confront students suspected of academic misconduct and take appropriate disciplinary action in a timely manner.

Student Responsibilities

Students share the responsibility of maintaining academic honesty and are expected to:

Refrain from acts of academic misconduct.
Refuse to be involved in any type of academic misconduct.
Notify instructors and/or appropriate administrators about observed incidents of academic misconduct.
Academic dishonesty is any form of cheating which results in students giving or receiving unauthorized assistance in an academic exercise or receiving credit for work which is not their own.

Academic Misconduct Process

Reporting, Disciplinary Action, and Disputes

In cases of academic misconduct, the instructor will inform the chair of the department (or the dean if the department chair is the instructor of the course) of punitive action. As academic misconduct is grounds for disciplinary action by both the instructor and the Dean of Student Life, a report describing the incident and the action taken will be provided to both the Dean of HSB as well as the Dean of Student Life. Any student judged by the instructor to have engaged in academic misconduct may receive a failing grade for the work in question, a failing grade for the course, or any other penalty that the instructor finds appropriate within the guidelines of university policy.

To dispute an accusation of academic misconduct, the student should first consult with the instructor. If the dispute remains unresolved, the student may then state his/her case to the department chair (or the dean if the department chair is the instructor of the course).

Classroom Expectations

Exam Day Classroom Policy

Permitted During an Exam

Appropriate writing instruments
An appropriate calculator, if applicable

Prohibited During an Exam

Any electronic devices, with the exception of calculators (in cases of professional obligation or personal emergency, arrangements must be made with instructor prior to exam)
Hats
Dictionaries and translators
Leaving the classroom without permission of instructor

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