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Responding to
Academic Misconduct
If
you have concluded that a student has committed academic misconduct,
university policy states that the incident must be reported to the
Dean of Students for several reasons. First, if these incidents are
not reported to a central location, a student who is violating
academic integrity in various courses may go undetected. Second,
students who are not held accountable for such misconduct tend to
repeat the behavior if they believe they can escape detection. The
official process for handling these cases has been carefully
designed to focus on both accountability and education, while
respecting the student’s due process rights. If you handle academic
misconduct outside the official process, the student can
legitimately file a complaint or contest any grade given as a
penalty on the basis that you did not follow correct procedure,
thereby depriving the student of due process. Failure to
appropriately address academic misconduct can have the effect of
undermining the academic integrity of Indiana University and, as a
consequence, lower the value of all IU degrees.
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