STUDENT
HANDBOOK
PART III: CODE OF STUDENT ETHICS
Indiana University regulations governing the actions and
interactions of members of the university community are
intended to enhance the values which must be maintained
in the pursuit of the university's purposes and goals of
preserving, improving, increasing, transmitting, and applying
knowledge. These values include freedom of inquiry, commitment
of searching for the truth, the exercise of the critical
judgement, intellectual honesty, freedom for the open expression
of ideas and opinions with limits that protest the rights
of others, respect for the news and the dignity of other
persons, and openness to constructive change. The Indiana
University Code of Student Ethics is outlined and defined
in the August 15, 1990, publication which defines student
rights and responsibilities, including individual rights
in the areas of freedom from unlawful sexual harassment,
racial harassment, and harassment based on sexual
orientation. This code exists as a guide for students,
faculty, and staff and is available from the MBA
Office or from the Office of the Dean of Students to assist
students in the conduct of their affairs.
Academic Misconduct
Indiana University, like all academic institutions, exists
for the advancement of knowledge, the pursuit of truth,
the development of students, and the promotion of the
general well-being of society. Free inquiry and free expression
are indispensable to the attainment of these goals. Students
are expected to exercise their freedom to learn with responsibility
and to respect the general conditions which maintain
such freedom. The university has developed the following
general regulations concerning student conduct which safeguard
the right of every individual student to exercise
fully the freedom to learn without interference.
The university may discipline a student for academic
misconduct which is defined as any activity which
tends to compromise the academic integrity of the institution
and undermine the educational process. Academic
misconduct includes, but is not limited to cheating, including
unauthorized cooperation or the use of unauthorized material
in preparing an assignment to be graded, fabrication,
plagiarism, interference, violation of course rules, and
facilitating academic dishonesty and all other defined
by the Code of Student Ethics issued by Indiana
University, August 15, 1990. The university may also discipline
a student for acts of personal misconduct which
occur on university property and include falsifying emergency
warnings, release of access codes for university
resources, lewd, indecent, or obscene conduct, unauthorized
entry, damage to university or property belonging to others,
sexual or racial harassment, and verbal abuse and
all other acts of personal misconduct as defined by the
Code of Student Ethics issued by Indiana University August
15, 1990. A faculty member who believes that a student
has engaged in any form of academic dishonesty shall initiate
the following process:
- Hold an informal conference with the student to discuss
the matter and include information on both the
act and the information upon which the allegation is
based. The student must be given an opportunity to respond
to the allegation of misconduct.
- If the faculty member concludes that the student did
commit the act of misconduct, the faculty member
is authorized to impose an appropriate academic sanction
related to the particular course involved.
- The faculty member is required to report the matter
promptly in writing to the student, the Dean, the Chairperson
of the Kelley Direct OnLine MBA Program, and the Dean
of Students.
- The student has the right to appeal the faculty member's
decision that the student committed the act of misconduct,
the faculty member's decision to impose a particular
academic sanction, or the decision of the Dean of Students
to impose an additional sanction. The appeal must be
filed within five days of receiving written notice of
the sanction.
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