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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY ?

MEMORANDUM

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Senate

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Dr. Robert Gordon, Chair

Senate Committee on Academic Integrity in Student Learning

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Annual Report

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Date:

27 October, 2005

I am pleased to submit the Annual Report of the Senate Committee on Academic

Integrity in Student Learning and Evaluation for

2005.

The Senate Committee on Academic Integrity in Student Learning and Evaluation is a

new committee charged, by Senate, with the following responsibilities:

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To promote academic integrity and honesty in course work and evaluation

processes.

To establish procedures that support, improve and ensure the standards and

conduct of examinations and to update these procedures as necessary.

To develop and update as necessary, a recommended statement on academic

honesty for use in course outlines.

On an annual basis, to liaise with the University Board on Student Discipline

and the Senate Committee on Disciplinary Appeals to ensure the currency of

policies and procedures dealing with academic integrity and, when

appropriate, recommend to Senate revisions to the policies as required.

To review and, where appropriate, make recommendations to the Senate

Graduate Studies Committee on supervisory practices that will promote

academic honesty and integrity.

To review and, where appropriate, make recommendations to the relevant

office or committee on revisions to graduate regulations or guidelines that will

promote academic honesty and integrity concerning intellectual property,

authorship and confidential research.

To consider other issues relating to the general question of academic integrity

as it applies to courses and evaluation of student performance.

To report annually in October to Senate on activities in the preceding year.

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To report to Senate in May 2008, and recommend whether the Committee

should continue or whether its responsibilities be transferred to another

Committee (or Committees) or Senate.

The Committee is chaired by Dr. Robert Gordon who is the Director of the School of

Criminology and a faculty senator. Dr. Alton Harestad is the Vice-Chair elected by the

Committee. Other members are Dr. Sean Zwagerman and Senior Lecturer Larry Wiebe

(faculty members), Ms. Josephine Wong (undergraduate student), Ms. Camilla Sears

(graduate student), Dr. Diane Whiteley (Student Services) and Ms. Elaine Fairey

(Library). The secretariat is Ms. Jo Hinchliffe. Mr. Douglas Grant is the alternate

representative for graduate students.

This report covers the period May 1, 2005 to September 30,

2005.

In that period, SCAISLE held two meetings, in May and September. The first meeting

was the inaugural meeting of the Committee and followed the appointment of Dr. Robert

Gordon as Chair of the Committee by Senate.

The Committee has developed an Action Plan for 2005/2006 based upon the Committee's

listed responsibilities and the recommendations of the Task Force on Academic Honesty

and Integrity. A copy of the timelines for the Action Plan is attached.

Two tasks were slated for completion by September

301h:

a review of the creation of the

Academic Learning Centre in the library; and a review of the on-line plagiarism module

created by the library. These tasks have been completed.

Two tasks were slated for completion by October

31st:

a review of examination standards

and procedures, and a review of examination facilities. These tasks should be completed

by mid- November 2005.

The other tasks listed in the timeline for the Action Plan should be completed on

schedule. These include, the development of standardized academic honesty statements

for use in departments and schools, the creation of a new incident report form to

streamline and standardize the processing of academic dishonesty cases, a review of the

value, or otherwise, of"Tumitin", and the development of a series of workshops on

academic dishonesty for TAs and faculty.

The Committee has a recommended shelf life of three years. It is anticipated that its tasks

will be completed within that time frame.

Submitted to Senate.

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