Sanctions by a Faculty Member

A faculty member cannot sanction a student for an academic integrity violation without formally submitting a Reporting Form for Academic Integrity Violation or Academic Misconduct Violation to the Office of the Associate Provost.

1. A faculty member can impose sanctions limited to the course where the academic integrity violation occurred. For example, depending on the severity of the academic integrity violation, a faculty member can require a make-up assignment at a more difficult level, reduce the grade on the student’s work containing the violation, give no credit for the work in question, reduce the course grade for the student regardless of accumulated course grade points or fail the student from the course.
2. Also, a faculty member can require the student to complete some activity designed to strengthen and/or test the student’s understanding of the academic integrity policy.
3. When a sanction allows a student to continue in the course, a faculty member can also request that the student not be allowed to complete an evaluation of the faculty member at the end of the course.
4. When an academic integrity violation is so severe that the faculty member decides that sanctions at his/her level are insufficient, the faculty member can request specific sanctions and require that the violation be adjudicated by the Office of the Associate Provost.
5. Because finding a student responsible for a third academic integrity or academic misconduct violation results in automatic expulsion, as discussed in the Multiple Sanctions section, if this is a third violation by a student, the faculty member may not sanction the student but instead must forward the reporting form to the Office of the Associate Provost for adjudication.