IUPUI Campus Bulletin 2010-2012

• Academic and Scholarly Guidelines
• Policy Regarding Individuals Convicted of Sex Offenses against Children

Academic Policies and Procedures

Academic and Scholarly Guidelines

Students admitted to any Indiana University School of Social Work program have already demonstrated potential for superior academic work.  Most social work students are therefore very familiar and comfortable with high academic and scholarly standards.  Obviously, students are expected to attend classroom and practicum course meetings.  Regular attendance is viewed as the personal and professional responsibility of each social work student.  Active participation in course activities is the expected norm.  In participating, it is expected that students reflect interest in, and respect for, their colleagues in a manner that is congruent with the values, ethics, and skills of the profession.

Students are expected to prepare documents in a scholarly and professional manner.  Students are to use the latest edition of Publication Manual published by the American Psychological Association.  Submissions should be in typewritten format and carefully edited for spelling and grammar.

Competent and effective social work practice requires well-developed and refined communication skills, including the use of the written word.  Writing well helps social workers communicate information accurately and concisely to others involved in helping client systems.  For this reason, formal writing assignments in social work courses will be evaluated on both the basis of the quality of the scholarly content as well as the quality of its presentation.

Electronic Communication

Students are expected to follow appropriate e-mail etiquette when communicating with faculty, staff, and peers.  Correct grammar is expected at all times.  Inappropriate use of email will be grounds for student review and disciplinary actions.  For specific guidelines, please visit www.itpo.iu.edu/policies.html and www.itpo.iu.edu/computeruse.html.

Student Misconduct

The following is based on Indiana University’s Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct (Part III, pp. 17-18), Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, and on Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (1997), Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct (Part III, pp. 28-29), Indianapolis, IN:

Academic Misconduct.

Indiana University School of Social Work and/or the university may discipline a student for academic misconduct, defined as any activity that tends to compromise the academic integrity of the institution and undermine the educational process.  Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Cheating.

• A student must not use external assistance on any ‘‘in-class’’ or ‘‘take-home’’ exami-nation, unless the instructor specifically has authorized such assistance. This prohibition includes, but is not limited to, the use of tutors, books, notes, and calculators.
• A student must not use another person as a substitute in the taking of an examination or quiz.
• A student must not steal examinations or other course materials.
• A student must not allow others to conduct research or to prepare any work for him or her without advance authorization from the instructor to whom the work is being submitted.  Under this prohibition, a student must not make any unauthorized use of materials obtained from commercial term paper companies or from files of papers prepared by other persons.
•  A student must not collaborate with other persons on a particular project and submit a copy of a written report that is represented explicitly or implicitly as the student’s own individual work.
• A student must not use any unauthorized assistance in a laboratory, at a computer terminal, or on fieldwork.
• A student must not submit substantial portions of the same academic work for credit or honors more than once without permission of the instructor to whom the work is being submitted.
• A student must not alter a grade or score in any way.

  Fabrication.

A student must not falsify or invent any information or data in an academic exercise including, but not limited to, records or reports, laboratory results, and citations to the sources of information.

Plagiarism.

• quotes another person’s actual words, either oral or written
• paraphrases another person’s words, either oral or written
• uses another person’s idea, opinion, or theory
• borrows facts, statistics, or other illustrative material, unless the information is common knowledge

Interference.

A student must not steal, change, destroy, or impede another student’s work.  Impeding another student’s work includes, but is not limited to, the theft, defacement, or mutilation of resources to deprive others of the information they contain.

• A student must not give or offer a bribe, promise favors, or make threats with the intention of affecting a grade or the evaluation of academic performance.

Violation of Course Rules.

A student must not violate course rules as contained in a course syllabus or other information provided to the student.

Facilitating Academic Dishonesty.

A student must not intentionally or knowingly help or attempt to help another student to commit an act of academic misconduct.

IU School of Social Work Addendum to Indiana University Policy on Plagiarism

In addition to the university statement on plagiarism, the IU School of Social Work defines plagiarism as including:

• The intentional or unintentional use of information from another person without full acknowledgement.  Such use, even when unintended, causes the work to appear to be the student’s own work and thus the student, not the original author, benefits from the omission of proper acknowledgement.
• Copying or using information from web sites without appropriately documenting the internet source.
• Buying or using a document written by another person.
• Submitting any part of the student’s own work which has been previously submitted, unless one’s own prior work is fully acknowledged and appropriately cited.