Habitual and unexcused movement during class sessions may be prohibited by the instructor. Students should deactivate signals from cell phones and beepers that can be heard by others during class. Instructors may forbid cell phone use during class. Students who persist in this disruptive behavior may be asked to leave the class and may be penalized by the instructor, who might, for example, count them as absent. Reading newspapers, doing crossword puzzles, or engaging in other persona ldiversions unrelated to class activity is equivalent to A personal conversation.
Students have an obligation to be informed of university and college policies on academic integrity.
Instructors should give clear guidelines concerning the kind of sources that may be used in examinations and papers and the proper way to cite sources. Instructors may penalize students for failing to cite sources or for improperly citing sources. Plagiarism or other blatant violations of academic integrity policies may be referred to the college deans who are authorized to handle student judicial cases. They deserve the same respect and good will as other members of the academic community and are protected from harassment and abusive behavior by university policies that provide for judicial procedures and strong penalties whenever members of the university community are abused or harassed. Instructors have an obligation to provide clear standards of evaluation and to review their evaluations of examinations and papers with students who seek them.