The Title IX & Conduct Code Blog

If your college accuses you of academic misconduct, the consequences can have far-reaching effects that negatively impact you for years, so it is important to enforce your rights and defend your reputation. Your potential rights include receiving appropriate notice of the rule you allegedly violated, an opportunity to respond to the accusation, access to institutional …

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While academic integrity has always been a key issue on college campuses, the accessibility of generative artificial intelligence and the panic over potential AI cheating have led to a tremendous surge in academic dishonesty cases nationwide. Much of the hysteria is driven by findings of flawed AI detection software. But flawed or not, schools are …

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Plagiarism has probably been around as long as written language. At its heart, the concept of plagiarism is quite similar to AI cheating. They both involve acts of passing off someone else’s work as your own. They also both point toward a lack of integrity and a paucity of intellectual diligence that would be counted …

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Generative AI has hit the academic world with an effect much like weapons used in chemical warfare. Certainly, serious harm is being done to learning opportunities as students find creative ways to avoid intellectual effort. But the psychological impact of the attack spreads with more lasting effect than the agent of destruction itself. Individual instructors …

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There is a paranoia about the use of AI in academic assignments that is reaching epic proportions. Professors and teachers are seeing AI-generated content everywhere—even where it doesn’t actually exist. If you have been accused of improper use of artificial intelligence in an assignment, it is important to take the accusation seriously, because it can …

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