Policies 8.0 - 8.1

8.0 Disciplinary Action and Appeal

Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance on when and how disciplinary actions are to be taken and how the appeal process functions.

Policy Statement
It is the policy of The School of Health Professions to encourage fair, efficient and equitable solutions for problems arising out of the clinical and/or didactic setting.

All students are responsible for:

• Acquainting themselves with:
  
  
  • Performance criteria
  • Rules
  • Procedures
  • Standards of conduct
  
  established by the their particular educational program, the School of Health Professions, and the institution
  
  
• Maintaining standards of conduct suitable and acceptable to the learning environment

A student who does not fulfill the responsibilities set out by such performance criteria, rules, procedures and standards of conduct, may be subject to discipline, up to and including termination from the institution.

The Conduct and Discipline policy and the academic and nonacademic Grievance Procedure are published in the Health Professions Student Catalog.

8.1 Academic Integrity Policy

Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to inform the students, that he or she must maintain academic standards, ethics, and honesty, including Institutional/School/Department/Program and individual course standards.

Policy Statement
It is the policy of the School of Health Professions Faculty to equate unethical and/or dishonest behavior as demonstration of a potential for harmful and life-threatening behavior in the clinical or oncology setting.

Cheating in any forms as listed below, will not be tolerated:

• Copying from another student’s test
• Copying from another student’s assignment without faculty approval for collaboration
• Using materials, or inappropriate procedures, during an exam not authorized by the person giving the test
• Collaborating with any other person during an exam without faculty approval
• Knowingly obtaining, using, buying, selling, voluntarily revealing, transporting, or soliciting in whole or in part the contents of any test without authorization of the appropriate official
• Bribing any other person to obtain an exam
• Soliciting or receiving unauthorized information about any exam
• Plagiarism, which is the unacknowledged (uncited) use of any other person or group’s ideas or work, this includes purchases or borrowed papers
• Collusion, which is the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing work offered for credit
• Falsification, which is the intentional and unauthorized altering or inventing of an information or citation in an academic exercise, activity, or record-keeping process
• Giving, selling, or receiving unauthorized course or exam information
• Using any unauthorized resource or aid in the preparation or completion of any course work, exercise, or activity
• Infringing on the copyright law of the United States which prohibits the making of reproduction of copyrighted material except under certain specified conditions
• Falsifying clinical laboratory values and submitting as true “patient data”
• Altering exam response(s) after the exam is corrected and stating that altered response was actually misread by the faculty or staff reviewing the exam responses

A student who is caught cheating during an exam or on class assignments will be subject to the following:

• Informal Procedure:  Informal actions (verbal warning) will be used to resolve minor instances of unsatisfactory behavior or misconduct. In these cases, a log of the discussions should be kept for documentation
• Formal Procedure:  The case of misconduct of a serious nature in a course will result in a Grade Reduction by one full letter grade of the student’s grade for the course
• Disciplinary Action: Will be taken based on repeated disciplinary problems or if a serious offense that warrants immediate action be taken.  Program Director will follow the procedures set forth in the Conduct and Discipline Policy.