Information for Faculty Academic Misconduct Procedures

Please note:

To comply with SACSCOC requirements, the Academic Ombud, ombud@uky.edu, must be copied on all emails to students and employees that involve suspected academic offenses.

Students have the right to remain in the course while the process is underway and the Registrar should be informed if the student withdraws. Students cannot withdraw from a course in which an academic offense has been committed.

Additionally, the academic offense process is confidential and only those involved in the process, and those with an academic need to know, may be informed. For example, it is not appropriate to inform students' advisors or other program faculty.

Initiating a Complaint

An instructor who suspects that a student has committed an academic offense in a course shall consult with the chair as soon as practical after the instructor develops the suspicion. Prior to consultation with the chair, the instructor may take action to prove or detect an academic offense or preserve evidence of same. In taking such action, the instructor should minimize disruption and embarrassment to the student(s).

The instructor and chair shall review the evidence of an academic offense, and the instructor shall decide whether the evidence warrants an investigation of an academic offense.

For further procedures, please see Offense Procedures.

If any person other than the instructor suspects that a student has committed an academic offense in a course in which the student is enrolled, that person should turn the evidence over to the instructor.

If any person suspects that a student has committed an academic offense, either with respect to a course in which the student is not enrolled, 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), that person should inform the dean of the college in which the student is enrolled.

For further procedures, please see Offense Procedures.

If any person suspects that a student has falsified, attempted to falsify, or otherwise misused academic records, that person should inform the Registrar.

For further procedures, please see Offense Procedures.

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Information for Faculty Academic Misconduct Procedures

Please note:

Initiating a Complaint

Instructor suspects an offense in his or her course

Another party suspects an offense in a course

Suspected offense outside of any course in which the suspected student is enrolled

Suspected falsification or misuse of academic records