TAMIU Student Handbook 2019-2020

Page 51 of 86 Section 10.07 Faculty, Administrators and Staff Reporting of Honor Code Violations Faculty (meaning any individual listed as the teacher of record for a course at the University, including adjuncts), administrators, and staff share in the responsibility and authority to challenge and make known acts that violate the TAMIU Honor Code. Section 10.08 Responsibilities of Faculty Faculty are expected to take proactive steps to promote academic integrity including, but not limited to: 1. Adding language to their syllabi that describes prohibited academic behavior and the consequences for misconduct. 2. Having an open discussion about academic integrity with students in their courses early in the semester. 3. Reporting academic misconduct, as required by the TAMIU Faculty Handbook. 4. Enforcing specified grade penalties for cheating or plagiarism, as outlined in their syllabi or as required by their department, college, or the TAMIU Faculty Handbook. Upon finding a violation of the Honor Code, a faculty member has the responsibility to: 1. Assess the situation and impose an academic sanction on the student. 2. Send a sanction letter to the student’s TAMIU email account, within 10 University business days of the discovery of the alleged violation and arrange for a conference with the student, if at all possible. 3. Copy the Provost, Chair, and Dean of the department, the Office of the Registrar, the Dean of the Graduate School (if the student is in graduate school), and the SCCE on the sanctioning letter (email). 4. Submit copies of course-work, and the source of academic misconduct, to the SCCE through the “Report It” system online within 10 University business days of the discovery of the alleged violation. All breaches of the Honor Code and violations of academic integrity must be reported to the SCCE through the Reporting System ( http://www.tamiu.edu/reportit ) within 10 University business days of the discovery of the alleged violation. Section 10.09 Responsibility of Academic Administrators and Staff Academic administrators and staff are expected to take proactive steps to promote academic integrity including, but not limited to: Academic administrators and staff are expected to provide support to the faculty and the students in enforcing the Honor Code. Specifically, they should encourage faculty to be