How Deans Implement UK's New Academic Offenses Policy

A case might reach you under one of the following circumstances.

• A student has committed an offense in a course in a course offered by your college, and the student has not previously received a major penalty (E or more severe) for an academic offense, but the instructor and chair believe that the offense is egregious enough to warrant an XE or a harsher penalty. Continue here.

• A student has committed an offense in a course offered by your college, and the student has previously received a major penalty (E or more severe) for an academic offense. Continue here.

• A student in your college has committed an offense either in a class in which the student is not registered, or in academic work outside of a course (for example, an honors project or dissertation, a graduate examination, a thesis or dissertation, or a formally submitted thesis or dissertation proposal). Continue here.

• The registrar notifies you that an inquiry was made about prior offenses of a student in your college after a chronologically prior offense by that student had occurred, but before the prior offense had been noted in the student's permanent record. Continue here.