Instructors normally retain students' papers and answers to examination questions during this period. In order to verify grades recorded by the registrar and to answer possible inquiries, instructors should retain their gradebooks for at least one year. Individual cases of student academic dishonesty are handled by the Office of the Dean of the appropriate school. Each faculty member is responsible for promptly re- porting cases of suspected academic dishonesty to the Office of the Dean of the school in which the course is offered. Each school has available in the Office of the Dean a written statement of policy assuring fair consideration of students in cases of alleged academic dishonesty, specified hearing procedures, possible sanctions, and routes for appeal of decisions.
All Northwestern faculty have a responsibility to advise students.
Faculty should make themselves available on a regular basis for consultation with students and inform themselves concerning academic and procedural matters that they may be asked to discuss with students seeking their counsel. In addition to general advising duties, some faculty are asked to fulfill programmatic advising functions. Students beyond their first year also should have access to faculty advising. Often this takes the form of having a designated adviser in the student's chosen field of study. Advisers should learn as much as possible about their advisees in order to give them appropriate guidance in planning their academic programs.