Course-Level Penalties for Academic Misconduct

Upon discovery of an act of academic misconduct, the assigning of a course-level penalty is up to the discretion of the instructor. If the student requests an AIC hearing panel to review his or her case and is exonerated of the alleged misconduct, the instructor must retract any course-level penalties and re-grade the assignment(s) in question as if no academic misconduct occurred.

Unless the course-level penalty is failure for the entire course, the student may still withdraw from the course, provided that the deadline for withdrawing has not yet passed.

A course-level penalty on the affected assignment that incidentally results in the student failure in the course is not the same as imposing a penalty of failure in the course.