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...reforms, ratified by FAS on Tuesday, provide the Ad Board with two new, and arguably less severe, options when issuing rulings in academic dishonesty cases...
While Faculty members will continue to be required to inform the Ad Board—the College’s primary disciplinary body—of incidents of academic dishonesty, they will also have new powers to administer “local sanctions” in conjunction with Board and the department chair. These local sanctions—one of two new responses to academic dishonesty that the Board will have at its disposal—will include mandatory tutoring, a required rework of the assignment in question, or a grade reduction...
...Board will also be given the power to exclude a student from a course, which will have the same consequences as failing a course...
Many administrators and faculty members say teaching staff are sometimes reluctant to turn students over to the board because they see required withdrawal as an overly-severe response. Over the last five years, 36 percent of academic dishonesty cases have resulted in required withdrawal from the College...
...make appointments and present the course to professor after professor, and we petitioned to show that the community supported this issue,” Nguyen said. “It was important that we had certain people on board...