From one perspective, any integrity violation is a serious violation. To account for that, when students accept responsibility for an academic integrity violation or an Academic Integrity Committee determines that the student violated academic integrity policies, there are some automatic consequences:
- Loss of opportunity to drop/withdraw from the course
- Loss of opportunity to qualify for the Dean’s list for the semester
- Loss of opportunity to apply the grade forgiveness policy to the course
- Loss of opportunity to convert the course grading to a pass/fail format
From another perspective, some violations are more serious than others. For example, a student who violates for the first time may have made an honest mistake, but a student who violates multiple times may be trying to cheat their way to a degree. An Academic Integrity Committee will consider this information when the student contests the allegations and/or the outcome proposed by the educator. To determine an appropriate academic outcome, the Academic Integrity Committee will consider the following:
- The student's familiarity with academic integrity expectations and the amount of instruction the student has had on the alleged misbehavior
- How much of the work was affected by the alleged violation (e.g., a paragraph or an entire paper)
- The value of the affected assignment/assessment on the course grade
- The impact of the violation on others
The Office of Student Accountability and Conflict Response also responds to academic integrity violations. To do that, they consider different things, including the student’s violation history. Their responses include:
- An educational intervention
- Formal warning
- Conduct probation
- Suspension
- Expulsion