From the Gordon State College Academic Catalog
(2017-2018)
Academic Dishonesty Policy (from page 85)
When a faculty member becomes aware of an act of academic dishonesty, the
faculty member may penalize the act in one or any combination of four ways
depending on the faculty member’s assessment of the severity of the infraction.
1. Assign a grade of F for the assignment and/or require
remedial action by the student.
2. Assign a grade of 0 for the assignment and/or require
remedial action by the student.
3. Assign a failing grade in the course.
4. Refer the matter to the
Provost.
In addition, after having dealt
with the act of academic dishonesty, the faculty member should send a brief
memorandum to the Dean of the School identifying the student, the infraction,
and the resolution. Academic deans will report egregious cases to the Vice
President of Student Affairs for placement in student record and potential
additional action.
If the student wishes to contest
the faculty member’s decision, the student may appeal the decision to the
Department Head and then the Dean of the School using the petition process. When
the matter reaches the School Dean by faculty member referral or student appeal,
the Dean may ask the Academic Judicial Committee to consider the matter and make
a recommendation. As stipulated in the Student Code of Conduct found later in
this catalog, the student may appeal the Committee’s recommendation to the
Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs. When the deliberations are
concluded, the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Faculty will
communicate the decision to both the student and the faculty member.
If the Vice President for
Student Affairs receives memoranda reporting two different incidents of academic
dishonesty by the same student and neither case is overturned by appeal in the
Office of Academic Affairs, the student will be summoned to the Student Affairs
Office for appropriate disciplinary proceedings.
B. Academic Dishonesty (from page 378)
Gordon State College recognizes honesty and integrity as being necessary to the
academic function of Gordon State College. The following regulations are
promulgated in the interest of protecting the equity and validity of Gordon
State College’s grades
and degrees and to assist students in developing standards and attitudes
appropriate to intellectual life.
1. No student shall receive or attempt to receive assistance
not authorized in the preparation of any laboratory reports, examinations,
essays, themes, term papers, computer software, or similar requirements to be
submitted for credit as part of a course or in fulfillment of a College
requirement.
2. No student shall knowingly give, or attempt to give,
unauthorized assistance to another in the preparation of any laboratory reports,
examinations, essays, themes, term papers, computer software, or similar
requirements to be submitted for credit as part of a course or in fulfillment of
a College requirement.
3. Plagiarism is prohibited. It is assumed that the written
work submitted for evaluation and credit is the student's own unless
appropriately acknowledged. Such acknowledgment should occur whenever one
directly quotes another person's actual words, appropriates another's ideas,
opinions, or theories even when they are paraphrased, and whenever one borrows
facts, statistics, or other illustrative materials unless the information is
common knowledge.
4. No student shall sell, give, lend, or otherwise furnish to
any unauthorized person any material which can be shown to contain the questions
or answers to any examination scheduled to be given at some subsequent date or
time in any course of study offered by the College, excluding questions and
answers from tests previously administered.
5. No student shall take or attempt to take, steal, or
otherwise procure in an unauthorized manner any material pertaining to the
conduct of a class, including tests, examinations, grade change forms, grade
rolls, roll books, laboratory equipment, library materials, etc.
6. No student shall falsify any
fact presented in any laboratory reports, research, examinations, essays,
themes, term papers, or similar requirements to be submitted for credit as part
of a course or in fulfillment of a College requirement.