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Proposed Policies on Student Conduct and Academic Honesty
http://www.sfu.ca/policies/draft/
The SCAISLE (a senate committee) is considering two draft policies.
The first one combines the current code of conduct and the academic honesty policies into one, with some added stuff. It bans: guns; disruptive behaviour; threats; insults; initiation ceremonies; defamation; damaging university property; fraud/false information; being in any building unless expressly authorized; violating any other university policy; committing criminal offences; plagiarism; submitting the same work twice; cheating, including "the concealment of information pertaining to the examination in the examination room, or in washrooms or other places in the vicinity of the examination room"; and submitting a draft that's not properly cited, whether or not you've been told in advance that drafts follow the same requirements as final works.
The second one details the procedures if anyone violates the first. It allows informal resolutions, as well as allowing a "support person" for the student to be present at basically all the important stuff. It also adds a new grade of FD specifically reserved for academically dishonest individuals. Then there's the whole judicial & appeals process.
Have a look at them.
The SCAISLE (a senate committee) is considering two draft policies.
The first one combines the current code of conduct and the academic honesty policies into one, with some added stuff. It bans: guns; disruptive behaviour; threats; insults; initiation ceremonies; defamation; damaging university property; fraud/false information; being in any building unless expressly authorized; violating any other university policy; committing criminal offences; plagiarism; submitting the same work twice; cheating, including "the concealment of information pertaining to the examination in the examination room, or in washrooms or other places in the vicinity of the examination room"; and submitting a draft that's not properly cited, whether or not you've been told in advance that drafts follow the same requirements as final works.
The second one details the procedures if anyone violates the first. It allows informal resolutions, as well as allowing a "support person" for the student to be present at basically all the important stuff. It also adds a new grade of FD specifically reserved for academically dishonest individuals. Then there's the whole judicial & appeals process.
Have a look at them.
Comments
This university needs to get its act together regarding citations and proper documentation. Only lately have I been in classes where they leave the citation style up to me, as long as its consistent. I've had classes where a teacher says for one assignment to use proper APA, then for a sub assignment tell you not to do things you would have to do in APA then dock you marks for not using proper APA.
I lost a letter grade last semester over some stupid little thing over a prof not being uniform in her assignments-- and then telling me she specifically warned me before hand on another assignment, which she never did.
Overall its just really irritating to me and a time waster to constantly have to re-read three different styles of proper documentation, when I could be doing one consistently. I understand different faculties having different uses, but I'm talking about different styles, within the same faculty, within the same program.