Adjudication Process - Faculty Member

Faculty members may adjudicate violation of the Academic Honor System through the following process:
I. Confront student and complete the Community Conduct Form.
II.  Arrange a meeting with student to issue the Community Conduct Form, discuss the alleged violations and obtain student's response.
III. Ask the student to respond to the allegations.  Students may choose to accept responsibility (skip to V) or deny responsibility.
IV. If the student denies responsibility, you may choose to refer the case to the Honor Court for a formal inquiry.  Or a faculty member may choose to adjudicate the case, see below for inquiry procedures:

  1. Faculty members are encouraged to schedule another meeting for a scheduled inquiry, unless the student chooses to forgo a subsequent meeting and proceed immediately with the inquiry.
  2. During a scheduled inquiry, students are permitted to have others at the inquiry to speak on his/her behalf.  This participation is limited to faculty, staff, and student members of the university community and those individuals must be named to the faculty member at least 48 hours prior to the meeting.
  3. Faculty members may also bring others to the inquiry to offer information pertinent to the incident or may have another member of the university community to witness the inquiry.
  4. During the inquiry, all documentation/materials related to the incident will be reviewed.  Additionally, faculty members may wish to outline and define the standards of Academic Integrity, refer to the course syllabus, review correspondence or other paperwork pertinent to determining responsibility for the alleged violation.
  5. Faculty member will determine if the student is responsible for the violation based upon preponderance of evidence.

V. If the student is found responsible, the faulty member will render the appropriate sanctions (See Sanctions.)  If the student is not responsible, state findings on Community Conduct Form.
VI. Faculty members will communicate his or her decision verbally and in a follow-up letter (templates available from the Coordinator of Judicial Services) that states the sanctions render and the appeal process.
VII. All documentation (including a copy of all correspondence, a completed Community Conduct Form, the faculty member's summary of the incident, copies of assignments and any other materials used to determine responsibility and response) must be sent to the Office of the Dean of Students to be maintained in the student's file.