Faculty Role
1. Instructor’s Role and Responsibilities:
a. Instructors are encouraged to inform their students of course-specific requirements and the penalties the Instructor may impose for academic misconduct as informed by their professional judgment. Instructors should also refer students to the definition of academic misconduct in the Student Code of Conduct and at www.ccsu.edu/academicintegrity.
b. Incidents of academic misconduct can range in severity from minor violations to major violations. Instructors determine academic sanctions according to their professional judgment as to the severity of the misconduct. The academic sanction should be commensurate with the severity of the misconduct (see Guide for Evaluating Academic Misconduct). These sanctions may include one or more of the following: a reduced grade for the assignment in question, the opportunity to revise the assignment or to complete additional course work, a grade of F for the assignment in question, or a grade of F for the course.
c. Upon the well-founded suspicion that an act of academic misconduct has occurred, the Instructor shall notify the student of the alleged misconduct and sanction to be applied.
d. Whenever an Instructor has reasonable evidence that a student has engaged in academic misconduct, they should complete an Academic Misconduct Report. One copy of the Academic Misconduct Report shall be sent to the Department Chair, one copy shall be sent to the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, one copy to the Registrar and another copy should be maintained by the Instructor.
e. If, based on an appeal from the Accused Student (see item 2b), the Department Chair or the Faculty Hearing Board determines that the Instructor did not provide sufficient evidence to support the alleged misconduct, then the Instructor should assign a grade based on the quality of the work as originally submitted.