Academic Misconduct Resources

A Note from Dr. Loveday Conquest, Assoc. Director
UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

First, SAFS would like to strongly encourage you to put a statement on your syllabi and course webpages regarding Academic Honesty. It could be something like:

Academic Integrity

Plagiarism, cheating, and other misconduct are serious violations of your contract as a student. We expect that you will know and follow the University's policies on cheating and plagiarism. Any suspected cases of academic misconduct will be handled according to University regulations. More information, including definitions and examples of Academic Misconduct, is available online. If you do suspect academic misconduct, here are some resources.

Faculty/TA Resource

The range of faculty responses to an alleged incident of academic misconduct is also available online.

Student Resource Regarding Academic Misconduct

The following webpage is a great one to refer students to in the course of an alleged misconduct situation (or to put on your syllabus and course website as a preemptive strike.) The one thing it doesn't address is that the faculty member has the option to informally resolve the issue directly with the student before referring the student to the Dean's representative. Excellent examples of misconduct and definitions are available online.

Plagiarism and the Web

A good resource for ferreting out plagiarism from the web can be found online.

Multiple Incidents with Same Student

We are concerned that the same (hypothetical) student could progress from one class/faculty to another, continuing to act less than ethically, but because there is no place where we are tracking these informal resolutions, there are not progressively severe consequences when a student reoffends. Until we have a full-fledged discussion about this, we'd encourage you to email Lin in Student Services basic info about the incidents you have dealt with: student name, course number, quarter, type of incident and consequence (i.e., warning, zero grade on assignment, redo of assignment, etc.). Lin will track the stuff informally. That way, minimally, you can check with her to see if the student has had another allegation and then you could talk with that first faculty member before determining your course of action.

We are hopeful that you won't need to use these resources, but if you do, please know that we are here to help.

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