Students are expected to do their own academic work, and dishonesty in academic work in any of its forms, including cheating, academic misconduct, fabrication, plagiarism, is unacceptable. Faculty are expected to instruct students in ways of avoiding these forms of academic dishonesty. Faculty are also responsible for assessing and reporting all charges of academic dishonesty to the provost. Procedures faculty will use to initiate disciplinary action in cases of academic dishonesty are outlined in the The Mountie Manual from which much of the information on this page is taken.

Faculty are responsible for apprising students of course evaluation criteria, for adherence to the stated criteria, and for determining grades in a fair and equitable manner. If a student charges that a faculty member has discharged professional duties in an improper, arbitrary, discriminatory, or otherwise unjustified manner, complaints may be properly considered by means of the procedures outlined in the current The Mountie Manual .

If a faculty member suspects that a student has engaged in some form of academic dishonesty, the faculty member completes an Academic Dishonesty Form, shares the form with the student, and has the student sign the form and indicate whether he or she is guilty or not guilty of the charge. The student has three options:

1. to indicate academic dishonesty and accept the sanctions as determined by the faculty member;
2. to indicate academic dishonesty for an especially serious violation and face possible suspension or academic dismissal through the Administrative Hearing Board;
3. to indicate innocence of the charge or to indicate that the sanction by the faculty member is too severe. In this last situation, the Hearing Board will meet to review the case.

Both the student and the faculty member will be invited to the meeting and both will be able to present evidence.

Following their review of the case, the Hearing Board will make a recommendation to the faculty member and the Provost regarding the disposition of the case. The Hearing Board may state that it finds the student guilty or not guilty of the charge of academic dishonesty, and/or it may state that the sanction is too severe or not severe enough for the transgression. In any of these cases, these are recommendations to the faculty member and the Provost. If a student remains dissatisfied with the status of his or her case following the recommendations of the Hearing Board, the student may appeal directly to the Provost. (Source: The Mountie Manual)