ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT POLICY ACADEMIC RESEARCH MISCONDUCT POLICY 2/2/72 Amended policy adopted. 2/4/76 Tabled proposal on academic misconduct procedures and penalties as to seek legal opinion on interpretation of term "suspension" and "penalties" section in general. 5/7/76 Amended academic misconduct procedures and penalties approved. 1/12/77 Amended Point 4 of "Procedures" section approved. 12/11/96 Approved policy for responding to allegations of Academic Research Misconduct. 10/7/20 (Report 12) Approved amended proposal to indicate that the faculty member needs to “communicate” to the student the misconduct either in a meeting or by email. 12/2/20 (Report No. 35) Policy amended: communication with a student need not involve a meeting; a faculty member may simultaneously apply a sanction and communicate this to a student, with possibility that sanction may be reversed if subsequent communication with student dissuades faculty member from belief that there has been misconduct.