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Date Posted: Wed April 13, 2005 13:57:34
Author: Jimbo65
Subject: Is St. Bona. Sleazing Again?

Copied the following from the A-10 Board. To me the administration is dead wrong and the F should stand. This is not the same as dropping out of a course because of inability to grasp the content or disinterest. I would think that given it's sordid past, SBU would take a sterner approach to dishonesty. Then again, virtually the entire senior admin. group was dishonest.

Sequence of Events

These events are unfolding in the current, spring 2005 semester.

A student/athlete was accused of and admitted to plagiarism.

The instructor informed the student that he had failed, consistent with the course syllabus which announced that academic dishonesty would result in a failing grade. This is consistent with the relevant section of the University's Academic Integrity Policy.

The student signed a statement acknowledging the plagiarism and accepting the failing grade.

The faculty member informed the registrar that the student had failed the course. Final grades are posted at the end of the semester in May.

The student was then advised by a third party that the University Catalogue stipulates that a student may withdraw from a course any time before April 1, 2005 � no questions asked. The student decided to rescind the signed statement and withdraw from the course.

Withdrawal from a course requires two signatures of acknowledgement � not permission: one from the faculty member and one from the student's academic advisor. The faculty member refused to sign.

The student appealed to the appropriate dean, as provided for in the Academic Integrity Policy. The dean upheld the faculty member's decision and refused to endorse the withdrawal.

The student decided to appeal the dean's decision to the Academic Honesty Board as provided for in the Academic Integrity Policy. Since such a Board was never formally appointed by the Faculty Senate as authorized in a 1988 Senate resolution, Dr. Skip Saal, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, asked the chair of the Faculty Senate's Academic Standards Committee to select, on a case-by-case basis, three faculty members and two students from the Committee to serve as an acting Academic Honesty Board. (This is a practice Dr. Saal has followed throughout his tenure in the absence of a permanent Board. This practice had the support and endorsement of the chair of the Faculty Senate and the entire Academic Standards Committee.)

Dr. Saal charged the acting Academic Honesty Board to decide on the specific student's case via a process described in the Academic Integrity Policy that involves calling witnesses, including the faculty member and the student. Instead, the acting Academic Honesty Board interpreted its charge to reconcile the two conflicting policies without regard to any specific student. The Board decided that the policy allowing for the student's withdrawal took precedence over the faculty member's option to assign a grade prior to the withdrawal date.

Because of the misunderstanding of the charge to the Board, Dr. Saal convened a meeting involving the faculty member, three deans, the chair of the Faculty Senate, two members of the Board (including the chair), and representatives from the athletics department to discuss the situation. Other individuals also attended at the invitation of the faculty member.

Following the discussion, Dr. Saal decided to nullify the decision of the acting Academic Honesty Board, based on the fact that the Board had not addressed the individual student's case as called for by the Academic Integrity Policy. Further, Dr. Saal asked the chair of the Faculty Senate to appoint a permanent Academic Honesty Board as called for in the 1988 resolution and direct the new Board to hear and decide this and other pending academic dishonesty cases by the end of the current semester.

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This will be a critically important issue for the A-10 in the coming 12 months. I recommend The Ram dispatch Tom DeCataldo to cover the issue from start to finish as the newly appointed Senior Olean Correspondent. (NT) -- Just Desserts, Wed April 13, 2005 14:24:55
The message is: cheat on exams within the drop time frame: if your caught drop the course, if not, you get over. Dropping a course is one thing, getting caught cheating is another. That's what takes precedence in this case, not the drop course policy. The administration at that school need their collective heads examined. (NT) -- FC, Wed April 13, 2005 15:50:39
- The policy is already set to change starting in the Fall semester. (NT) -- ace93, Wed April 13, 2005 16:46:56

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