processes for adjudicating issues that arise for students, and the academic accommodations and policy procedures. Academic deans distribute a “Dean’s Letter� to faculty within their divisions at the start of each semester that contains a statement on student honesty adapted from the Five Principles of Student Academic Integrity in the college catalog. Instructors are encouraged to include this or a similar statement in their syllabi (IIA7b-3).
clear prior notice of such policies, including statements in the catalog and/or appropriate faculty or student handbooks. Description Laney College does not require conformity to specific codes of conduct of staff, faculty, administrators, or students or seek to instill specific beliefs or worldviews. Laney College does not offer curricula in foreign locations to students other than U.S. nationals.
Evaluation The college meets this standard. Laney College created and published principles and policies on academic integrity for students and faculty, which can be found in board policy, the faculty handbook, the college catalog, faculty contracts, and syllabi. According to recent surveys, a majority of instructors and students are aware that there is an academic integrity policy; most, though, have less specific knowledge about the recourses available to them if they are accused of a breach in academic integrity. Awareness will be increased through, among other ways, professional development activities and formal discussions at the Faculty Senate slated for spring 2009 (IIA7-1, IIA7-2). Planning Agenda Reconstitute the Laney Academic Integrity Task Force to conduct faculty workshops and to (1) continue working on trainings for implementing the Academic Integrity Policy and raising awareness of the recourse instructors and students have if they are accused of a breach in academic integrity, (2) work with the Faculty Senate and vice president of instruction to adopt a college-wide student academic honesty statement and to be included in all syllabi, just as SLOs are required as they are completed, and (3) work with the Faculty Senate and board of trustees to include the Academic Integrity policy in the Board Policy Manual. II.A.7.c Institutions that require conformity to specific codes of conduct of staff, faculty, administrators, or students or that seek to instill specific beliefs or world views, give
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