Responsibilities
It is the responsibility of each student at Jacksonville University to know and abide by the standards and guidelines for academic integrity, as outlined above.
Instructors are expected to provide clear information regarding class assignments; however, it is ultimately a student’s responsibility to understand the amount of collaboration allowed in a specific assignment, to understand how to cite sources, and to never assume that working with others or using the student’s previous work or the work of others is acceptable without instructor permission.
It is the responsibility of instructors to report all acts of misconduct, even if they believe those acts to be unintentional, so that students can benefit from special educational instruction and assistance to help ensure that they avoid committing such acts again in the future. If the instructor is unsure whether a violation has occurred, the instructor is to consult with the Chair of the Academic Integrity Council.
By reporting acts of academic misconduct through the Academic Misconduct Notification Form (available to instructors via WebAdvisor) at the time that they occur, instructors initiate a process that allows students to either admit guilt, accept all penalties without explicitly admitting guilt, or exercise the right to challenge the instructor’s determination of guilt in a timely manner with the Academic Integrity Council. This process is entirely separate from the Grade Appeals Process. If an instructor should impose a penalty for an act of academic misconduct in a course, but fail to report the incident through the Academic Misconduct Notification Form, the instructor’s action will be considered a violation of university policy. Therefore, if the student should initiate a grade appeal after receiving his/her final grade in the course, the instructor’s dean would automatically reverse the course-level penalty.