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The Senate of the University has enacted the following regulations for instructional offences at the graduate level:
Any student commits an instructional offence who:
(a) cheats on an examination, test, or graded assignment by obtaining or producing an answer by deceit, fraud, or trickery, or by some act contrary to the rules of the examination
(b) submits substantially the same piece of written work to two different courses. Minor modifications and amendments or changes of phraseology do not constitute a significant and acceptable reworking of an essay or paper
(c) contravenes the regulations published at an examination or which are displayed on the reverse side of a properly authorized examination booklet
(d) commits an act of plagiarism. Plagiarism will be deemed to have occurred when a student either:
(i) directly copies another's work without acknowledgement; or
(ii) closely paraphrases the equivalent of a short paragraph or more without acknowledgement; or
(iii) borrows, without acknowledgement, any ideas in a clear and recognizable form in such a way as to present them as the student's own thought, where such ideas, if they were the student's own, would contribute to the merit of his or her own work
(e) disrupts a class or other period of instruction if he or she:
(i) is a registered member of the class or period of instruction
(ii) is warned to discontinue any act or behaviour reasonably judged by the instructor of the course or period of instruction to be detrimental to the class, and having ignored such warning is ordered by the instructor to leave and refuses to leave
(f) Any student found in violation of these regulations may be:
(i) expelled
(ii) suspended from all studies at the University
(iii) suspended from full-time studies;and/or
(iv) awarded a reprimand
(v) refused permission to continue or to register in a specific degree program, but subject to having met all academic requirements shall be permitted to register and continue in some other program
(vi) placed on academic probation
(vii) awarded a Fail or Absent in a course or examination
Allegations of instructional offence may be investigated by instructors and/or departmental chairs and, in all cases, will be reported to the faculty dean. The dean will promptly advise, in writing, the student and the university Ombudsman of the allegation and of the student's rights. The dean will review the allegation and, if not resolved at that level, the allegation becomes subject to final disposition by a tribunal appointed by the Senate. Information about procedure governing tribunals is available from the Clerk of the Senate, Room 607, Robertson Hall.
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