 but I think that's it for housekeeping, so I'll give it over to you that and we can get started. Okay, thank you. Yeah, I am speaking on behalf of the Academic Integrity Committee, some of the members which are over here to my left, and we are all happy to answer any questions after the presentation. Oh, wrong computer. Here we go. So one reason we wanted to think about academic integrity and exactly what we're doing in our procedures is because of the rapid increase in the number of cases that we've noticed over the last several years. So we're in 2010 we maybe had 12 cases, we now have more like 80 cases and so that starts to be a lot of people that that we're dealing with that we want to make sure we're dealing with fairly and consistently and have really solid procedures in place for this. So one question is are people cheating more or are people getting caught more and probably the answer to to both of those is likely yes, although we don't. There's no way, no control case to really know which of those is true. We just know that we have a lot more cases than we used to. There are many different types of academic integrity violations. I'll kind of quickly go through some of the some of the main ones. Copying, of course, is an academic integrity violation. Submitting another person's work as one's own or submitting another person's work without proper citation. That can often happen accidentally in a way when people are working in a group and they're not clear that they have to turn in their own individual assignment even though they're part of a particular group. So I think being very clear in assignments and in your syllabus as well as to when something is truly something that's a group effort and everyone turns in the same thing versus things where maybe people in a group are all assigned a similar thing say one group has a particular case that they're looking at but it's still an individual assignment. That can get kind of confusing for students and it could lead to some of this. Unauthorized test possession purchase or supplying. We'll talk more about how that is being done in a kind of big way now with certain sites so we'll talk about that in a minute. Ghosting where you pretend to be someone different and go take the test for them. Clearly a violation. Altering exams or assignments. Improper use of technology. So having your calculator when you're not supposed to, having your phone out when you're not supposed to. So again it's good to be very clear about what they are allowed to have out and what they're not so that people aren't caught, you know, doing something they didn't realize was wrong. So the more clear everyone can make their expectations then at least we're giving, we are only kind of catching people who really are trying to violate the academic integrity. Facilitating academic dishonesty by others and I think students maybe don't always know that this is bad, that they are in as much trouble as the other person if they do this. So giving someone your old exams or leaving your homework laying out so your roommate can kind of copy it. You are still at fault for that. So that I think they don't really because they did their work but you can't give your work and let someone else have it. So many weren't previously used without permission. I think this is another place where students have some confusion because they wrote the paper but they wrote it for a different class and they already got credit for it in that class so they can't use that same paper in another class. That one again can be confusing because it's their work but you can't double count it like that unless you have talked to the professor and for some reason are given permission to do that. Unauthorized collaboration and here again this is where it's important to be very clear about what is group work and what is individual work and we obviously like to have students have study groups. I think they learn really well when they're all working on problem sets together but in the end the answer they turn in has to be their understanding of that answer. So some clarity about those expectations is again really important and unauthorized use of study aids is clearly violation. And these are described on that the link down there or if you just google sanctioning guidelines for academic integrity violations at Penn State you would get to the to a very long list with a lot more description about what each of these are and what is considered a minor infraction and major infraction for each of these different types of violations. So this is called know your students heroes because there is a study site called course hero where students can upload their information so they can upload previous tests that they took they can upload all their assignments from a course and these are things obviously we don't want living out on the internet for for other students to find. It is a violation of Penn State's policies for students to do that but they might not realize that it's important that people use the newest version of the syllabus template because a lot of information like that is in the the newest version of the template will try to catch these kind of things and help help professors have them covered if they were to happen in their class. So this could be both an academic integrity violation and also a copyright violation. Before we go farther there are a few definitions that are important. One is the difference between academic sanctions and conduct sanctions if there was a word to neck. Yeah it's fine it just was one line looked a little better but but we can read it. Academic sanctions are are consequences that are going to affect a student's course grade so like they kind of like they sound. So giving a zero on an assignment saying that they're going to have a reduction in their course grade by a full letter things like that are academic sanctions and again there are good pretty good guidelines or given the severity and the type of infraction in what is sort of a recommended academic sanction to go with that. The other type of sanction is a conduct sanction and these are really consequences that instead of directly affecting a grade kind of affect their standing as a Penn State student. So this could be a warning for academic integrity violation probation a notation of xf on a transcript if they failed they have to get an f in the course for them to make it into an xf but it would indicate that the f was because they cheated so it's a pretty serious thing to have on your transcript and in rare cases or in repeated behaviors it could lead to expulsion and all of those are conduct sanctions and the two are handled pretty differently and we're really as a committee have decided to handle these two pretty differently. You'll see what I mean. So conduct sanctions are implemented when cases are particularly egregious or there's this pattern of dishonest behavior across multiple courses so when people start to have priors then we start to think about what the conduct sanction should be. So as a committee we talked a lot about if someone does have a prior what should we do with that should that automatically go into an increased academic sanction or should it go on the conduct side and we have kind of decided as a committee that it makes more sense for each class to kind of for that grade to represent what the violation was in that particular course so you keep the original academic sanction that was you know that the instructor requested but if there are priors then you add a conduct sanction to that so we're kind of separating the two. So as an instructor you aren't going to be changing grades based on what happened in completely different courses a year or two ago that'll be handled through the conduct side of things. I think it's a cleaner representation of what the student actually did as well. Okay so if you think that someone cheated in your course now what do you do the first thing is really to have a conversation with this student is possible there's a misunderstanding it's possible they really were confused about the directions so have a have a conversation if you still believe that there was a violation then you need to fill out an academic integrity form which is shown here and I'll zoom in on particular parts of it on the next slide. Give the form to the student and immediately send the form also by email to Martha Travers in the Ryan Family Student Center that's important to do because then Martha knows when to start the clock because there's a five-day time period for the student to contest and it's you know this way you don't have to keep track of that like Martha is keeping track of that for you and she knows exactly when it ends if they don't contest within that time period then we assume that they are accepting responsibility for the violation. Yeah so that form can be both emailed to the student or physically provided to the student. Yes and the clock starts ticking. The clock starts by the instructor time date on the form and it's five business days so at the end of the business day most of the business on a fifth day I don't immediately send it to the office of student time. I'll wait until the next day just a little bit more time and then by the end of the day on the sixth day I'll send it to the office of student. So the main parts that an instructor would need to deal with are five six and seven here so five is a description of the alleged violation and you can attach supporting documentation if you have some so an example here is student copying the answers to an assignment from the internet and maybe you would have documentation that shows where that exact answer was on the internet along with their answer and then number six is your proposed academic sanction so here I've put a score of zero on the assignment it's what I would like the consequence to be and it here's the actual link to that sanctioning guidelines big chart it's kind of intimidating but once you start looking through it it's very helpful actually for figuring out what to do. Number seven is the recommended disciplinary sanction which is really about the conduct sanction that an instructor can request so if you believe it was so egregious that you want there to be a conduct sanction as well then you could put one you could put one in there. Generally what we have found I think I'm accurate in saying that instructors usually put in an academic sanction and leave the conduct sanction part to the academic integrity committee but you can put one in if you want to. The student can contest both the charge so whatever is the number five and the sanction so they can say yes I cheated but the sanction is too strong I don't think that's a fair sanction. Here we go. It's also important to note that we are fully in charge of what the academic sanction will be as a college the conduct sanctions we recommend to the office of student conduct and then the final decision is theirs for those then that keeps things a little more consistent across the entire university. Okay so what if the student can test what do you have to do then? There may be a hearing with the EMS academic integrity committee most likely there will be a hearing but if the student doesn't want one they don't have to have one but it it would be kind of odd to contest but not want a hearing so usually there will be a hearing. You'll need to provide evidence of the infraction for the hearing anything in addition to what you you supplied with the original form that you think makes the case stronger. The student can submit a letter and any evidence they have that supports their side of the story. Both sides say all of the evidence and arguments before the hearing so you will get to see what the student is saying to counter you know what their explanation is for what happened. You can attend the hearing in person or over the phone your attendance is separate from that of the student so you don't have to worry about you know both being there and having to argue back and forth. The student comes in they tell their side we ask questions they leave and then we engage with you so I think that's a little bit nicer way for both sides probably for that to happen and you are not required to attend. After that we will let you know the outcome and that outcome is based on a preponderance and the evidence which is kind of a weaker standard than beyond a reasonable doubt. So if it's more likely than not that the student is responsible for that violation then we will find them responsible. It doesn't have to be like in the court system. If they are not responsible then you will apply the academic sanction you recommended after you're notified that the process has been completed and we will also recommend any conduct sanction based on your recommendation as well as the information about prior offenses. So we will kind of take care of the conduct sanction part you don't really have to get involved with that if you want to. It is important the way to apply and adjust to grade until after the process is complete and you've been notified of the outcome. So you can just leave it blank in canvas or wherever you put your grades until until you know how this turns out and then put in either the original grade if they're found not responsible or whatever the adjusted grade is if they are found responsible. You might wonder too can a student file an appeal? The decisions are by the committee are final so they cannot be appealed unless in the most egregious cases where we would recommend dismissal from college programs which is an academic sanction that one can be appealed to the dean or the dean's representative. Conduct sanctions again are just sent to the office of student conduct and they are resolved there and cannot be appealed. The process here is summarized in this flow chart that we have as a handout over there and it will also be available on the website. I think it's still the old version right now but the new version yeah I think that's that thing again. Yeah and this was the one sent in email to all instructors in EMS as well so you shouldn't have it in your email too. So that is all I have for presentations so we can move into the Q&A with the panel.