The School of Education strongly supports the college’s mission to “educate students to become ethically and socially responsible leaders for the global community.” Professional dispositions, professional behavior, demeanor, and appearance are critical aspects of responsibility, instruction, and leadership with children and colleagues. Professional conduct is expected of candidates at all times.
Academic Honesty
We promote and rely on mutual respect, civility, concern for others and academic integrity in the pursuit of academic excellence. Academic dishonesty undermines all of these. All forms of academic dishonesty, unfair advantage, and plagiarism will have consequences in all instances. All members of the campus community have an obligation to report any suspected instance of academic dishonesty on the part of graduate Education students to the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the School of Education. The Associate Dean for Graduate Programs will meet with the relevant parties and will take action deemed necessary. In all cases where faculty suspect academic dishonesty, they have the obligation to bring the matter to the attention of the relevant Department Chair. If discussion between the instructor and the student and if needed, subsequent discussion with the department chair do not result in a satisfactory conclusion, the matter will be brought to the Associate Dean who will act. All students will be held accountable to and must become familiar with the definitions, procedures, and sanctions outlined here and in the SOE Graduate Student Code of Conduct, whether or not the course syllabus explicitly specifies a policy on academic integrity.
For any act of academic dishonesty, the School of Education may impose one or more of the following sanctions or an additional sanction: rewriting the assignment and/or failing the assignment, failing the course, taking a mandated workshop or other remedial course, academic warning or probation, denial of placement for or removal from student teaching, withholding a recommendation for certification, and/or suspension or expulsion from the graduate program.
Dispositions
The School of Education values collaboration, emotional maturity, flexibility, honesty and integrity, professionalism, respect, responsibility, and reverence for learning.
These values are indicated by respectful action towards college faculty and classmates in classrooms and on-campus and towards children always. We believe that a candidate’s ability to behave professionally and respectfully at all times is diagnostic of his/her ability to behave professionally and effectively as an educator. We, therefore, expect candidates to model as graduate students the same behaviors they will follow in their own practice as educators, in and out of classrooms. Professional behavior and dispositions are assessed throughout a student’s program at Manhattanville. We expect and will observe and assess professionalism and respectful behavior at all times.
Any instance of unprofessional behavior which is not immediately rectified will be reported to and recorded by the appropriate Department Chair and/or the Office of Graduate Advising. Candidates who exhibit a serious, documented lack of professional dispositions will be subject to a range of sanctions including, but not limited to, a course grade being lowered, failure of the course, mandatory counseling and/or other required remediation, restrictions from activities or privileges, denial of the college recommendation for teacher or leader certification, removal from student or supervised teaching or denial or delay of placement for student teaching, and/or suspension or expulsion from the School of Education.
For further information, definitions, and adjudication and appeals processes, please consult the School of Education Graduate Student Code of Community Conduct, available in the Office of Graduate Advising.
It is each student’s responsibility to become familiar with these materials.
Please refer to the School of Education Graduate Student Code of Community Contact and the Manhattanville College Code of Community Conduct for the college’s policies on harassment, bias acts, and sexual misconduct, and confidentiality and academic freedom.
Absences
More than two absences can affect the course grade; individual courses may have more restrictive policies