Important Information About Academic Misconduct

Reporting Academic Misconduct:

According to the Provost’s website, “It is a faculty member's responsibility to support integrity and to follow the Academic Misconduct Code's procedures for either admonishing the student or filing a complaint of misconduct before imposing any penalty for misconduct.……..A STUDENT MAY BE ACCUSED OF ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT whenever a faculty or staff member believes, after reasonable investigation where necessary, that academic misconduct has occurred and that the student has some responsibility for it. The professor who believes misconduct has occurred may either give the student an admonition and grade penalty or file a complaint of academic misconduct.”  [RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER THE ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT CODE, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA NORMAN CAMPUS (EXCLUDING LAW)]. Full document available online at: http://www.ou.edu/provost/integrity-rights/.

Here is a direct link to the Provost's academic misconduct/admonition form: http://www.ou.edu/provost/integrity-rights/academic-misconduct-report.pdf.

f you have difficulty opening or saving the PDF document accessed above, you can email or call Patrice Brink (325-2869) in the CAS Online Program office and she will email you the same document in MS Word format.  The document can be saved on your local machine, printed for submission, and/or sent to the student as an email attachment.

Helping to Prevent Academic Misconduct:

The Provost's website also provides a Plagiarism Tutorial for students: http://www.ou.edu/provost/integrity/player.html