Panel to educate on academic integrity
The Office of Judicial Affairs
will host a discussion on how
to avoid academic dishonesty
at 6 p.m. tonight
Lindsay Sauve
Family/Health/Education Reporter
Chris Loschiavo is on a first-name
basis with cheaters. As director of
Student Judicial Affairs, he is the
person faculty members must report
to when a student violates the Uni
versity’s Student Conduct Code poli
cy on academic integrity. If students
are caught plagiarizing, cheating,
fabricating or otherwise engaging in
academic misconduct, their names
may end up in his file cabinet.
Loschiavo and a panel of faculty
and students will be hosting “Aea
demic Integrity: What your degree
is worth,” a discussion at the
Knight Library Browsing Room
tonight at 6 p.m. The panel is
geared toward educating students
on the importance of preserving
their academic integrity, the conse
quences of cheating and ways to
avoid resorting to such conduct.
Tonight’s discussion is part of a
week-long seminar conducted by
the Office of Judicial Affairs.
Since Thursday, faculty mem
bers have been attending work
shops and discussions to better
educate themselves on how to
handle student dishonesty.
“The idea is to get faculty and
students involved and talking
about this issue,” Loschiavo said.
“Preserving academic integrity is
a shared responsibility.”
The Student Conduct Code de
fines academic dishonesty in four
ways: plagiarism, cheating, fabrica
tion and academic misconduct. If a
student is caught violating the
code, faculty members are sup
posed to first address the student,
determine the grade penalty, and
then file with the Office of Judicial
Affairs. The conduct code man
dates all acts of academic dishon
esty be reported, regardless of
whether the student admits to
cheating or not.
The code also has suggestions for
students on how to avoid cheating,
such as being informed about their
instructors’ guidelines and refusing
to assist other students who may be
caught cheating, as well as sugges
tions for instructors on how to ad
dress the issue with students.
Some universities have adopted
honor codes with controversial
guidelines that would require a stu
dent who knows about or witness
es an act of academic dishonesty to
report it to school officials. If the
student fails to do so, they could
share responsibility with the stu
dent who cheated. Loschiavo said
the University is considering ex
cluding this section if they adopt an
honor code system.
About 130 cases of academic dis
honesty were reported to his office
last year, according to Loschiavo.
Journalism Professor Tom Wheel
er said it’s important that students
are aware about what is acceptable
behavior and what is not. He added
much of the conduct code addresses
common sense issues, but there are
some practices that students may be
unaware are violations.
“Most students probably under
stand it’s not OK to lift a term pa
per off the Internet,” Wheeler
said. “But some departments have
different policies regarding
students collaborating when writ
ing papers.”
Wheeler said he addresses the
issue of plagiarism to his students
in the class syllabus, taking quotes
directly from the Student Conduct
Code, so from the beginning, stu
dents are informed of his policies.
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