Faculty Handbook
II.C. Student Evaluation of Faculty (Pg. 35)
“Student evaluation of faculty is conducted as a part of the continuing process of faculty development. Procedures for student evaluation of faculty are established by the department and/or college under university guidelines. Student evaluations are a component of the annual faculty performance review, merit salary recommendations and promotion, retention and tenure. Student evaluations will be administered by deans, department chairs, program directors, faculty other than the one teaching the course, or departmental administrative staff. Graduate or under-graduate students will not administer these evaluations.”
Student Handbook
Academic Misconduct - aligns with the chair’s responsibility to uphold academic integrity, address violations, and ensure consistent enforcement of policies. (pp. 15–16)
“Arkansas State University promotes academic integrity and professional ethics among all members of the A‐State academic community. Violations of this policy are considered as serious misconduct and may result in severe penalties, up to and including expulsion from Arkansas State University. A student deemed to have engaged in academic misconduct may not avoid academic sanctions by withdrawing from a class, a program, or the University. Students that participate in organizations such as Honors College or Athletics program(s) are subject to dismissal from those programs in addition to the penalties set forth below. The respective program(s) will be notified of any offense. Colleges and Departments may add to these prohibitions and standards applicable to all students in order to enforce academic integrity and professional ethics to meet their special needs for a specific degree program.
For the purposes of these definitions, an assignment includes any task assigned as a course requirement or program requirement. Assignments include but are not limited to papers, projects, homework, and exams.
- Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of taking, using, and/or presenting the idea(s), work(s), and/or writing(s) of another person or entity (e.g., artificial intelligence) as one's own. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
1) Submitting as one’s own any theme, paper, report, computer program, presentation, creative work, or scholarly work of any nature belonging to, or written or created by another, including artificial intelligence, without prior permission of the instructor and proper citations.
- a) To avoid plagiarism, give written credit and acknowledgment to the source of thoughts, ideas, and/or words, whether you have used direct quotation, paraphrasing, or just a reference to a general idea.
- b) If you directly quote works written by another person(s) or entity (e.g., artificial intelligence), enclose the quotation with quotation marks and provide an appropriate citation (e.g., footnote, endnote, bibliographical reference).
- c) Research for an assignment, as well as the complete assignment, must be the work of the person seeking academic credit for the course. Permission of the instructor to use prior work completed for another course or assignment must be obtained in advance.
- Cheating/Unapproved Collaboration
Cheating is an act of dishonesty with the intent of obtaining and/or using information in a fraudulent or unauthorized manner. Examples of cheating include, but are not limited to:
1) Observing and/or copying from another student's assignment.
2) Giving or receiving assistance during an examination period. This includes providing specific answers to subsequent examinees and/or dispensing or receiving information that would allow the student to have an unfair advantage in the examination over students who did not possess such information.
3) Using class notes, outlines, and/or other unauthorized information during an examination.
4) Using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting, in part or in whole, the contents of an assignment when such action is not authorized by the instructor of the class.
5) Using for credit in a subsequent class an assignment written for credit in a previous class without the knowledge and permission of the instructor of the subsequent class. This includes when a student is repeating a course for credit.
6) Impersonating or attempting to impersonate another person, or permitting or requesting another person to impersonate you for the purpose of taking an examination or completing other assignments.
8) Altering grades or official records.
9) Falsifying or signing another person’s name on any academically‐related University form or document. 10) Sabotaging or interfering with the academic progress of others. 11) Submitting altered, fraudulent, or falsified data, course, degree program requirements, including but not limited to honor’s thesis; doctoral dissertation; qualifying exam; dissertation defense, and University records/forms.”