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Academic Integrity/Honesty – Faculty

The foundation of academic work is intellectual integrity, credibility, and trust. A learning community can only be maintained if its members believe that their work is judged fairly, and they will not be put at a disadvantage by another member's dishonesty. For these reasons, it is essential that all members of the NYITCOM community understand our shared standards of academic honesty. Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly work in an open, honest, and responsible manner. Academic integrity is a basic guiding principle for all academic activity at NYITCOM, and all members of the College community are expected to act in accordance with this principle. Academic integrity includes a commitment not to engage in or tolerate acts of falsification, misrepresentation or deception in the completion of academic work. Such acts of dishonesty violate the fundamental and ethical principles of the NYITCOM community and compromise the worth of work completed by others.

Faculty are expected to manifest academic honesty in all of their endeavors. New York Tech's policy may be found in the Faculty Handbook: U.S. Campuses.

Therapeutic Relationship and Grading

Any health professional providing health services via a therapeutic relationship, must recuse themselves from the academic assessment or promotion of the student receiving those services.

Any student who is being assessed by a clinical faculty member who is also their healthcare provider, and the faculty has not already recused themselves, will be granted an alternative pathway for completing the assessment where no conflict of interest exists, by making a formal request to their site's Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.

Any clinical faculty who is a member of the Student Progress Committee, Behavioral Intervention Team and/or Student Professionalism and Ethics Board and is the healthcare provider to a student the committee is assessing, must recuse themselves from all deliberations related to that student.

Academic Integrity/Honesty – Students

Faculty should model academic integrity in their professional actions and must hold students accountable to the policies related to academic honesty. Students may be disciplined for academic dishonesty.

Any student who witnesses other students engaging in dishonest conduct is obligated to report it to the Office of Student Administration. Failure to do so constitutes dishonest behavior on that student's part.

A faculty member who believes that a student has committed one of these forms of academic dishonesty should make a detailed written report to the Office of Student Administration, where disciplinary proceedings will be initiated.

Course Syllabi

Each course must have a syllabus that serves as the principal document by which the faculty members communicate to the student the objectives of the course. The course syllabus essentially represents a contract between the faculty and the students.

Each course syllabus should contain the following information:

  1. Course Name, Number and Credit Hours
  2. Course Description
  3. Personnel (names, titles, contact information, office hours, as relevant) directly involved with the course, as follows:
    • Course Director(s)
    • Administrators
    • Faculty
    • Post-Graduate residents (as applicable)
    • Academic Scholars (as applicable)
    • Staff
  4. Learning Activities
  5. Course Resources
  6. College Policies may include:
    • Video Streaming Policy
    • Attendance Policy
    • Dress Code Policy
    • Academic Integrity Policy
    • Academic Honesty for Examination Policy
    • Make-Up Examination Policy
    • Grading System
    • Remediation
  7. Course-Specific Policies
    • Attendance Policy
    • Grading and Evaluation Policy
  8. Course Schedule (or may provide a link to the schedule)
  9. Learning Objectives (or may provide a link to Canvas resources)

After being annually updated by relevant faculty, course leadership and administrators, syllabi are provided to the members of the Curriculum Committee for their review and feedback. Upon integrating feedback, each syllabus is posted electronically on the academic website (Canvas) prior to the onset of the respective course such that students, faculty, staff, and administrators can view it.

Course Notes and/or Lecture Presentations

Faculty members must submit electronic versions of course notes and/or lecture presentation materials to the Office of Academic Affairs by the designated deadlines. Course notes and lecture presentation materials (e.g., PowerPoint presentations) are posted electronically on the academic website (Canvas). The Academic Technologies Group is available to assist faculty with technological issues pertaining to course notes and lecture presentations.

Pre-Clinical Education Make-Up Policy

Please see the make-up exam policy in the NYITCOM Student Handbook.

Curriculum Additions or Changes

NYITCOM has a Curriculum Committee that reviews requests for curriculum additions and changes. A request for a new initiative, pilot program, or substantive change must be reviewed and approved by the department involved and the Office of Academic Affairs, then referred to the Curriculum Committee for review and action at its next meeting. If approved by the Curriculum Committee the recommendation is referred to the Dean for final review and implementation.

Lecture Recording

NYITCOM's Academic Technology Group (ATG) maintains an innovative video capture site that archives all lectures at NYITCOM and makes it available as a review tool. The Academic Technology Group posts these recordings using Kaltura Mediaspace and organizes them with lecture resources on Canvas. The website is password protected.

To maintain the provision of high-quality learning activities, lectures must be updated and recorded a minimum of every two years for content and delivery. Content must be reviewed before each course begins for posting. Utilization of a peer-review or lecture development process is encouraged. Faculty development and support related to best practices in teaching and learning is available for faculty.

Grades – General Information

Please see NYITCOM Student Handbook for information regarding grades.

Remediation Policy

Please see NYITCOM Student Handbook for information regarding the remediation policy.

Academic Warning

Please see the unsatisfactory academic performance section in the NYITCOM Student Handbook.

Dismissal

Please see the NYITCOM Student Handbook for information regarding dismissal.

Student Petition for Reinstatement

Please see NYITCOM Student Handbook for information regarding reinstatement.

Academic Probation

Please see NYITCOM Student Handbook for information regarding academic probation.