The University Senate of Michigan
Technological University
Proposal 19-10
(Voting
Units: Academic)
“Increase Membership of Academic
Integrity Committee”
By Amendment of Proposal 27-95
Background/Rationale
The University Senate is
charged to select three faculty to each serve on the
Academic Integrity Committee for a three year term. The Office of Student Judicial Affairs in the
Dean of Students Office trains the faculty and schedules the hearings on which
the faculty sit as hearing officers.
As a matter of internal
practice, Student Judicial Affairs has also trained the faculty members of the
Academic Integrity Committee to sit on a student conduct board called the
University Judiciary Committee. The faculty on the Academic Integrity Committee
are also are utilized when an Appeal Committee is convened. So, the three members of the Academic
Integrity Committee have been participating in a substantial number of cases,
which is a larger commitment of time than they may have expected.
A strategic goal of Student
Judicial Affairs is to enlarge the pool of both faculty and students who are
trained to sit on all of the student conduct boards mentioned above, and to
increase referrals of serious cases to conduct boards rather than individual staff
hearing officers.
Appointing the three additional
faculty members through the University Senate (rather than being recruited and selected
by an administrative office) will give the faculty members the recognition that
they deserve for their important service to the University community.
Proposal
Amend Senate Proposal 27-95,
Academic Integrity Policy, section IV.D.2.a, Academic
Integrity Committee to the following:
The Academic Integrity
Committee is composed of three six
faculty members serving staggered three year terms, three five
full-time undergraduate students, three five graduate students, and two student affairs professionals. The
faculty members will be chosen from the faculty at large by the University
Senate. The three five undergraduates
shall be chosen from the undergraduate student body by the Undergraduate
Student Government. The three five graduate students shall be chosen from
the graduate student body by the Graduate Student Council. The two student
affairs professionals will be chosen by the Dean of Student Affairs.
Adopted by Senate: 14 April 2010
Approved by administration: 22 April 2010