Read the Academic Integrity Statement from SUNY New Paltz Student Handbook:
“For course-based integrity violations, faculty members are responsible for (i) compiling appropriate evidence materials (the course syllabus, assignment, and evidence of the academic integrity violation) and (ii) making the initial determination of the grade for the assignment and any additional academic penalty to be imposed based on the degree of severity of violation. In general, academic penalties include reprimand, failure on the individual assignment, resubmission of the assignment, additional work for the course, or a failing grade in the course.
The grade for the assignment and the academic penalty are generally within the faculty member’s decision-making purview. A penalty that includes potential failure for the course requires the review and approval of the divisional Dean.
In any case in which a faculty member seeks to render a penalty that exceeds a reprimand the faculty member must inform the student in writing of the alleged violation and penalty. This communication should occur at the time that the graded assignment is returned to the students in the class. From the date that the assignment is returned to the class (or the student has been informed of the integrity violation), then a student charged with an integrity violation has ten (10) business days to appeal to the divisional Dean.”
POLICIES: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY from SUNY NEW PALTZ (bolding our own)
***Guidelines for SWW Tutors***
What do you do if you suspect that a student has plagiarized?
First, work with the student. As Jessica Delaney, the coordinator of the Center for Student Success, recommends in her podcast, assume the best of the student. In other words, assume the plagiarism was unintentional and then use it as a teaching moment. For more information, take a look at the page marked: “Plagiarism: In the Context of Tutoring,” which is located in this unit.
Should you report a case of plagiarism to the instructor? Well, in your weekly attendance notes, you should let the instructor know that the students is having difficulty with paraphrasing and/or quoting and that you worked on those issues during your session. If a students hands in a paper that contains plagiarized passages, and the instructor grades the paper without detecting the plagiarism, you will want to bring this to the instructor’s attention. However, do not worry too much about this issue—-we have never had a case where a tutor recognized a plagiarized section of an essay while an instructor did not.
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WORKS CITED
“Policies: Academic Integrity.” SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Catalogue, https://www.newpaltz.edu/ugc/policies/policies_integrity.html. Accessed 9 July 2021.
