Revised

Annual Report on Student Discipline Matters

2008/2009

Statistical Summary - Non-academic Discipline Incidents*

Statistical Summary - Academic Dishonesty Incidents*

University Board

on Student Discipline

**

Senate Committee on Disciplinary Appeals

**

*

Section 6.1 of Policy S10.03 states: The Registrar and the Senior Director, Student and ConunWlity Life, shall maintain

a

statistical summary of cases which are handled through their offices each year, and these data shall be included in the

Annual

Repon on Student Discipline Matters.

**

Section 6.2 ofPolic), 510.03 states: In addition co the data in 6.1, the Annual Repon on Student Discipline Maners

must contain a summary

of the UBSD Tribunal's decisions, the President's decisions, SCODA's decisions and the penalties

imposed.

This repon will be accessible to the University community and will be submitted to Senate for information except

except where the Tribunal,

SCODA or the President detemline that cases or partS of cases should not be disclosed. The

Sumnwy mlut not disclose the identities of the parties. A set of decisions which does not disclose the identities of the panies

shall be maintained in the office of the Secretary of the UBSD and is available for review upon reasonable notice ..

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Nov

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009

Under the

policy

on

Principles

and

Procedures

for Student Discipline (S

I

0.02), (Note these

policies were revised

as of May

I,

2009.)

,

Section 4.1

,

"The

Registrar

and the Senior Director

,

Student and Community Life

must maintain

a

s

ta

t

istical

s

ummary of cases

handled

through their

offices each year, and these data must be

included

in

the Annual Report to Senate on Student

Discipline Matters". The

infonnation

below fulfills the annual reporting requirement of student

misconduct.

The purpose

of the Code of Academic

In

t

egrity and Good Conduct (S

I

0.0

I) is to

create a

s

cholarly community characterized by

honesty

,

civility

,

divers

i

ty

,

free inquiry,

mutual

respect

,

individual

s

afety and freedom from

harassment

and discrimination.

The

newly revised policy

has

expanded jurisdiction which

include

s

SFU

s

tudent conduct

in

University-related activitie

s

at

any location, including on-line activities that involve or refer

to the

U

niversity, to

U

niversity

activi

t

ies,

or t

o

members

of the University communit

y.

The procedures for handling student misconduct are ou

t

lined

in Policy S

10.01,

Appendix

I.

As

per

the policy, reports of student misconduct are forwarded to the Senior Director

,

Student

&

Community Life who will give the student opportunity to meet and discuss the situation. The

Senior Director, Student

&

Community

life i

s

empowered to take

o

ne or more oflhe following

courses

of actions:

1.

s

eek an infonnal resolution;

u.

recommend the student recei

v

e counseling or other profes

s

ional

assistance and,

if

necessary, assist the student in obtaining counseling or other professional service

s;

HI.

issue

a fonnal written reprimand to the student

;

lV.

a

s

ses

s t

he recover cost

s

to rectify the damage or l

o

ss

c

au

se

d by the

s

tudent;

v.

requir

e

th

e

student to writ

e

a

lette

r

of ap

o

logy

t

o any per

s

on adversely affected by the

student

'

s behaviour

;

V

I.

r

e

quire the

s

tuden

t

to perfonn up to

5

0 hour

s

of

c

ommun

i

ty service;

Vll.

tenninate the student'

s

scholarship

s

or other financial support

;

VIII.

refer

the

matter to the Univer

s

it

y

Board of Student Discipline (UBSD).

Attached

is

a summary table for cases of student misconduct in which m

y

office

intervened

during

the

period

of November 1

,

2008

to

October

3

1

,

2009. Beginning in 2006

th

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annual

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report

on

l

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included those

cases w

here

the

student

met

wit

h

the

Se

ni

or

Director

(or

designate)

Studen

t

&

Community

Life. Prior to

2006,

the

A

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ua

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Rep

o

rt

s

also

i

ncluded:

I.

Cases

o

f

th

e

ft fr

o

m

the

b

ooks

t

o

r

e w

h

ere

(he

s

tud

ent was

i

ss

ued a

l

etter

i

ndicat

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th

e

m

a

tt

e

r

wo

uld

be

k

e

pt

o

n

file.

2. Cases i

n

w

hi

c

h

com

p

l

aints

we

r

e i

n

i

t

iated

but

th

e com

pl

a

i

nan

t

was

unwilling

to

proceed

with

the

m

a

tt

er.

3.

Cases

in

volv

in

g

m

e

nt

a

l

h

ea

lth

concern

s

where

a

n

i

mmed

iat

e referral was

m

ade

but

th

e

r

e

was

n

o follow

lip

with

r

ega

rd

to

the alleged

mi

scon

duct.

Thi

s

r

epo

rt

does

n

o

t

i

n

clude cases of stude

nt

crimina

l

activity which

ha

ve

t

akc

n place

on ca

m

pus

that are currently befo

r

e co

urt

s.

However

cases

th

a

t h

ave a

l

ready been

di

s

po

sed

of

by the

courts

a

nd

are

th

en followed

up und

e

r th

e Code of Academic

I

ntegrity and Good

Co

ndu

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policy are

includ

ed.

Table

I

-

Mi

sco

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c

t

Cases

from

2006

to

P

resent

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

Di

s

ruptive

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r

Dan

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s

24

8

17

Damage

or

Theft

13

9

3

Fra

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and M

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author

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Percentage

of

Misconduct

Cases

by

Category 2008

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Uni'.E!rsity Policies

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of

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Unauthorized Presence

3

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F

raud

and M;;,use\

10%

Disrupli'.E! or Dangerous

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%

Attached

in Table

2

are the

sa

n

c

ti

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n

s

imp

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in

eac

h

of the 2008-2009 cases.

Li

sted

below are

th

e

broad

ca

t

egories

of

the cases

dealt with during

the

past

year as a

p

erce

n

t of

the total

mi

scond

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cases.

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Table 2: Non-Academic Student Discipline Incidents

(Nov

12008 - Oct 312009)

Incident Type

#/(%)

Cases

Resolution

Require

Tenninate

Seek

Recommend

Issue a

Recover

written

Require

Scholarshi

Refer

Informal

Professional

Formal

Costs

Apolog

Community

pof

to

Resolution

Assistance

Reprimand

y

Service

Financial

UBSD

Aid

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Disruptive or

X

X

17

Dangerous

(57%)

X

Behaviour

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Damage,

X

X

X

3

destruction or

(10%)

X

X

X

theft

X

X

X

X

Fraud

misuse

and

(10%)

3

X

X

Unauthorized

1

X

X

X

EntrylPresence

(3%

Misuse of

disciplinary

0

procedures

X

X

X

X

Violation of

6

X

X

University

Policies

(20%)

X

X

X

X

X

X

Total

30

26

3

23

3

2

1

Percentage

87%

10%

77%

10%

7%

0%

0%

3%

*=Each case can result m multiple acttons; accordmgly percentages WIll total more than 100%

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There are a few general observations I would like to share with Senate:

•

As mentioned last year the lower number of cases seems to be attributable to: 1) the

removal of the majority of misconduct stemming from mental health issues and 2) the

improved disciplinary practices used

by the Department of Residence

&

Housing.

• Although the number of incidents increased by 30% from 2007-08 to 2008-09 the nature

of the cases changed significantly. The majority of cases fall into the disruptive or

dangerous category with 8 cases involving either parking passes violations/alterations or

misconduct with an automobile.

• The cases involving alcohol dropped to 3 in the last year.

• The dramatic increase in university policies violations relates to violations of the liquor

act requirements

by groups who requested special occasion liquor licenses.

• During this past year there was a decided increase in both verbal abuse (5) and assault

(4) cases. It appears the general trend

in society for more heated (verbal or physical)

exchanges during disagreements has

arri.

ved at SFU.

I hope that the infonnation provided helps the community understand this important and

complex issue.

Respectfully Submitted,

•

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Tim Rahilly, Ph.D.

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Senate

DATE

December 17

2009

FROM

RE:

Kate Ro

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R

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a

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Senior

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ACADEMIC

DIS

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2009

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The Academic

In

tegrity

Coordinator in the Registrar's

office co

ll

ects

and compiles data

regarding academic dishonesty

cases from

units

across

all three

campuses.

The

re

vised Academic

Honesty and Student

Conduct

Policy became effective May 2009. This

policy requires reporting

of academic dishonesty incident

s

to

the Registrar

's

office.

Between January and December

2009

,

185

incident

report fOnTIS were filed in the Registrar's

office.

Twenty-eight

of thirty-eight

academic

units reported

in

cidents.

Four cases involving repeat offenders were identified

through

the

central

database and they were

dealt with either by the Registrar or the Departmental

Chair

following established policy.

There are 39 active Academic Integri

ty

Advisor

s

repr

ese

nting departments and faculties

coordinated by the

Academ

i

c

In

tegrity Coordinator

in

the

Registrar's office.

An

Academic

Int

egrity

Advi

s

ory Committee has been fonned by the Registrar and met for the first time

in

October.

Table

1

below lists the most common

typ

es of

in

c

ident

s that occur

and Table 2 detail

s

the

breakdown

of penalties

ass

igned. Table

3

l

ooks at

the breakdown of incident reports by Faculty.

*This report will be revised in January

2010

t

o reflect receipt

of

all incidents related to Fall 2009.

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TABLE 1

Type of Incident:

Plagiarism

Examples:

-student submitted paper plagiarized

from 6

different

un-cited

sources

- Student explicitly plagiarized large portions

of two academic articles which made up

approximately 80% of fmal project/paper.

- student submitted

an annotated bibliography

containing predominantly material

II

cut and

pasted

II

from the abstracts of the articles they

were to annotate

Cheating

on exams or assignments

Examples:

- student

used washroom during exam, was

found to have an iPhone and half a page of the

formula sheet from the exam with answer

- student repeatedly looking

in the direction of

the papers of the two neighbouring students,

similarities cannot

be due to coincidence

- student

"borrowed " the code from another

student

FraudlMisrepresentation

Examples:

- Student signed a friend into a tutorial when

the friend was in fact not in attendance

- Student submitted a falsified medical

statement

to the University in her application

to withdraw

from two courses

TOTAL

(p.

No. of Cases 2008

87

33

5

125

No.

of Cases 2009

258

113

136

9

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TABLE 2

Penalties

Number 2008

Number 2009

*Note: Students can receive more

than one penalty

Give the student a warning

9

40

Assign a grade penalty less harsh than

18

25

'F' for the work

Impose a failing mark for the work

75

157

Assign a grade penalty

of 'F' for the

9

2

course

Assign a grade less harsh than

'FD'

11

for the course

Assign a grade

of "FD"

3*

Re-do the work or do supplementary

8

29

work

Refer to the Chair

26

Issue a fonnal reprimand

5

Refer to

UBSD

6

3

TOTAL

125

301

*The 'FD' grade was introduced in May 2009

TABLE 3

Faculty

Incident Reports 2009

BUS

10

EDUC

1

ENV

2

FAS

103

FASS

101

FeAT

13

HSCI

8

SCI

19

Registrar's

Office

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Faculty:

Students:

Staff:

University Board on Student Discipline

Reporting Period: January

2009 - December 2009

UBSD Membership

Gordon

Rose (Co-Ordinator), Psychology (January 2009 - December 2011)

Greg Baker, Computing Science (October 2004 - September 2010)

Wanda Cassidy, Education (November 2008 - October 2011)

Anne Macdonald, Business Administration (September 2006 - August 2012)

Kevin Douglas, Psychology (September 2008 - August 2009, replacing G.Baker

while

he was on study leave)

Tara

Azimi, Undergraduate, Health Sciences (September 2009 - August 2010)

Anton Bezglasnyy, Undergraduate, Political Science (Sept 2009 - August 2010)

Karel Casteels, Graduate, Mathematics (September 2007 - August 2010)

Kathy McKay, Graduate, History (July 2008 - June 2010)

Jeff Miller, Undergraduate, Communications (September 2007 - August 2009)

Amanda van Baarsen, Undergraduate, Criminology (July 2008 - June 2009)

Tracy Bruneau, Computing Science (August 2004 - August 2010)

Donalda Meyers, Education (November 2005 - October 2011)

Yvonne Tabin, Continuing Studies (October 2006 - October 2009)

Five cases concerning academic dishonesty and one case concerning student misconduct were

dealt with by the University Board on Student Discipline in the period covered by the report.

A

summary of the cases is forwarded to Senate for information.

ordonRose

Coordinator,

University Board on Student Discipline

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File #

09-1

09-2

09-3

09-4

09-5

09-6

Nature of Offence

UBSD

Student Discipline Summary

Outcome

Submission of fraudulent infonnation on

loan and bursary applications

Use of external service to create and

submit

false

transcripts in support of

admission application to SFU

Two incidents of plagiarism in the same

course taken in two different semesters

Submission

of a forged doctor's nOle in

support

of an application for retroactive

withdrawal

Student appealed decision of I nstrUctor to

issue a written warning for academic

dishonesty after finding a post-it note

of

the student's on the floor during a mid-

tenn exam

Student attended a final exam in a course

that the student

was not registered in, but

was registered to take the following

semester, and walked out of the

examination at its beginning with a copy

of the exam paper

Student admitted the academic dishonesty. The President accepted

the recommendation of the Tribunal and prohibited the student from

applying for or receiving any financial aid, awards, or bursaries from

SFU

for three semesters.

Student admitted to the academic dishonesty. The President accepted

the recommendation

of the Tribunal and pennanendy suspended the

student from SFU and removed all courses purportedly taken at

Kwanden Polytechnic University

from the student's transcript.

Student admitted to the academic dishonesty. The President accepted

the recommendation

of the Tribunal and suspended the student for

one semester. Departmental penalty (F) in course to stand.

Student admitted to the academic dishonesty. The President accepted

the recommendation of the Tribunal that the student be suspended

for two semesters.

Student's appeal upheld. Tribunal concluded that the department had

not established on the balance of probabilities that the student

committed an act

of academic dishonesty and recommended that the

written warning be

removed from the student's file.

The student did not dispute the facts of the case. The Tribunal found

that the student committed an act

of misconduct in misappropriating

and retaining the examination. The Tribunal recommended that the

student be issued a fomul reprimand, be required to write a letter of

apology to the course instructor, and be required to complete 25

hours of community service, under the direction of the Senior

Director, Student

&

Community Life, Student Services.

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Senate Committee on Disciplinary Appeals - SCODA

2009 Report

Senate Committee on Disciplinary Appeals

Reporting Period

January 2009 - December 2009

The Senate Committee on Disciplinary Appeals (SeODA) dealt with one appeal in the period

covered by this report involving a charge

of academic dishonesty based on the failure to protect

answers from use by other students:

seODA Case Appeal No - 09-1 (failing to protect answers from use by other students)

Appeal based on Policy TIO.03, section 8.1 (a) ("that a procedural error occurred of

sufficient magnitude that it may reasonably be said to have affected the fairness of the

process.") A penalty was imposed on the student after she left a copy of an assignment

on a public work station for a second time

(Policy TIO.02, section 3.0(e) provided that

forms

of academic dishonesty include "failing to take reasonable measures to protect

answers from use by other students.") The penalty was imposed under TIO.03, section

2.1(a), which required that the Chair of the Department be informed of the offence and

the decision. The instructor sent a letter

to the Registrar but conceded that

he

did not

inform the

Chair of the incident. The Academic Dishonesty and Misconduct Procedures

Policies in effect at the time of the underlying incident did not provide for forwarding

incident reports to the Registrar except by the Chair of the Department.

I

Based on its

authority under Tl 0.03, section 1 O.3(a), the Committee found in favour of the student

based on procedural error and substituted its own finding as follows: that the incident

report be removed from the student's record in

the

Registrar's office but that the 25%

reduction in the grade for the assignment and the letter outlining the incident

in the

student's departmental file be retained.

SCODA Membership as of December 2009:

Chair:

Dr. Andrea Geiger, Department of History

Vice-Chair: Dr. Abraham Punnen, Department of Mathematics

Faculty (Regular Members)

Dr. Andrea Geiger, Department of History

Dr. Geoffrey

Poitras, Faculty of Business Administration

Dr. Abraham Punnen, Department of Mathematics

Faculty (Alternate Members)

Dr. Luis Goddyn, Department of Mathematics

Dr.

Peter Tingling, Faculty of Business Administration

Students (Regular Members)

Mr. Elliot Funt, undergraduate student

Ms. Ali Godson, undergraduate student

Mr. Graham Hiscocks, undergraduate student

I

Because the incident in question took place prior to May 1,2009, the policies in effect at the time of the

incident applied

in this case.

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