Academic Integrity Policy and Procedures. Michigan Tech's academic integrity policy and procedures can be found on the web.
On - Line Report Form and Video Presentation. Please note that there is now the option of making an on-line report to the Office of Student Affairs if you identify or even just suspect academic dishonesty. The on-line report form is located at http://www.sa.mtu.edu/dean/judicial/ (Academic Integrity Violation Report Form). On the same page, there is a link to a 12 minute video presentation called "Academic Integrity at Michigan Tech - What Students Need to Know." Please feel free to send the link to your students or use it in class discussions.
Please Report All Incidents. The Office of Student Judicial Affairs is in the process of preparing a report analyzing the last five years of academic integrity incidents. Please note that in 1995-96 there were 10 incidents reported. In 2005-06 there were 81 incidents reported, 31 involving first-year students. In 2006-07, there were 183 incidents reported! We strongly urge you to report all incidents of suspected or confirmed academic dishonesty to your faculty supervisor. It is vitally important that students understand that academic dishonesty is unacceptable and results in a report to the Dean of Students Office on campus; hence, a student will be identified if he/she is engaging in academic dishonesty in more than one class. We will always discuss a situation with the instructor before taking any action.
Recurring Problems with Collaboration and Team Assignments. A recurring problem arises when students are used to working in teams, then they are given an individual assignment, but they continue to work in a team. Sometimes this results from understandable confusion if the instructor doesn't give clear or explicit instructions about which assignments are team assignments and which assignments are individual. Our "Millennial Generation" students are used to team work and tend to believe that all assignments are collaborative unless told otherwise; however, our academic integrity policy says exactly the opposite: "Students are expected to treat all graded academic exercises as work to be conducted privately, unless otherwise instructed." Please help your students by being very clear in your syllabus and in your assignments what level of collaboration (if any) is permitted and reinforce this verbally in the classroom from time to time.
If there is anything our office can do to assist you, please don't hesitate to contact us at 487-2212.