Convening an AIC Hearing
A student can request a hearing with the AIC only after an Academic Misconduct Notification Form is submitted by the instructor. If there is no Academic Misconduct Notification Form submitted by the instructor, the student will need to refer to information in the Grade Appeal Process in the JU Catalog.
If the student requests a hearing with the AIC, the instructor’s dean or designee is to forward all information regarding the alleged act of academic misconduct to the AIC Chair, who is to meet with the student in a neutral, advisory role, to review the case and discuss the student’s options. If the instructor who has charged the student with an act of misconduct is also the AIC chair, then the instructor’s dean will designate another faculty member serving on the AIC to meet with the student, and to serve as the AIC chair for that case.
The AIC Chair may make frank recommendations at this meeting that result in the student choosing to forego the hearing and admit to committing academic misconduct, but it remains the student’s right to have a hearing if he or she chooses. If, after this meeting, the student still wishes to request a hearing, the AIC Chair is to schedule one within the next fourteen business days, if possible.
When alleged violations occur at the end of a fall or summer semester, the hearing is to take place within thirty days of the beginning of the next spring or fall semester, respectively. When alleged violations occur during the spring semester, the hearing is to take place no later than thirty days after the beginning of the following fall semester.
The AIC Chair will then select the participants of a Hearing Panel from the members of the AIC. The Hearing Panel is to consist of three to five voting members (aside from the chair).
Members of the AIC may disqualify themselves from participating in any particular Hearing Panel for any reason. In such a case, it is up to the chair to find a replacement member according to the above guidelines. The instructor who has accused the student of academic misconduct cannot be a member of the hearing panel, nor serve as the AIC chair for that panel.
The instructor and the instructor’s dean are to be notified of the time and place of the hearing.
If an accused student is either unwilling or unable to attend a Hearing Panel that he or she has requested, the AIC chair may opt to have five members of the AIC review the student’s case without requiring these members to attend a physical meeting.