Academic Integrity Council

Organization

A. Academic Integrity Panel: Panels are intended to provide hearings for less serious or complex integrity cases. Panels consist of 3 members of the Council, including at least 1 faculty and at least 1 student member of the Council.

B. Academic Integrity Board: Boards are intended to provide hearings for more serious or complex integrity cases. Boards consist of 5 members of the Council, including at least 2 faculty and at least 2 student members of the Council.

C. Academic Integrity Council: The Council consists of all students, faculty, and staff eligible to serve on Panels and Boards. The full Council may be convened by the Chair of the Council to study integrity issues, to decide matters of internal procedure, and to make recommendations to the Academic Standards Committee.

D. The Chair of the Council will conduct all Panel and Board hearings but will not serve as a voting member of a Panel or Board.

E. Alternate student, faculty, and staff members will substitute when members of the Council are unable to serve.

F. The Assistant Vice President of Academic Operations or a faculty member designated by the Chair will act in place of the Chair of the Council when the Chair is unable to serve in that capacity.

Selection of the Council

A. Student members of the Council areelected by the student body for a term of up to three years. Eligible candidates are nominated by any member of the Faculty or Staff, any member of the Academic Integrity Council, or any member of the Student Government Association, and nominees will be submitted to the student body for election. This election is held in the spring for students to begin serving the following academic year.

B. The Chair has the power to appoint student members and alternates to serve during the Summer Session.

C. Faculty and staff members of the Council and faculty and staff alternates are appointed by the President of the College for staggered three-year terms.

D. The Chair may–with permission of the President–appoint faculty and staff members of the Council and faculty and staff alternates for the Summer Session.

E. The Chair has the power to appoint temporary student, faculty, and staff alternates for those hearings for which regular members of the Council are unavailable.

F. The Chair may remove from the Council any member that loses eligibility to serve or does not participate (remains unable to serve on Panels or Boards for an extended period of time or fails to participate in Council matters).

Orientation and Training of the Council

All Academic Integrity Council members, prior to serving at any Panel or Board hearing, receive an academic integrity orientation. This session will cover the following:  discussion of the rationale for the Academic Integrity system; description of the academic integrity system and its procedures; clarification of the purpose and character of hearings; guidelines for deliberations during hearings (including the standard of proof used in academic integrity cases as well as an overview of previous years’ cases); and a summary of results of recent evaluations of the system. Academic Integrity Council members also receive training using some real case studies and some of the discussion that would normally occur regarding appropriate penalties.

Read more:  Procedures of the AI Council