Procedure if the Authority is a Student

  1. The allegation is immediately shared with the Chair of the authority’s department and the supervising faculty member, hereafter referred to as “the group”. (If the chair or the supervising faculty member is involved in the allegation, then a suitable substitute must be found.)
  2. The 6.x Office initiates an investigation to determine whether the allegations are correct. It shares the results with the group once the investigation has concluded.
  3. If the allegation involves a failure to disclose or noncompliance with the recusal plan, then corrective steps without sanctions may be an option.  If the group is unanimous in this belief, then those corrective steps are communicated in a letter to the authority with a copy sent to the Chair of the authority’s department and the supervising faculty member. The 6.x Office will ascertain through periodic check-ins that these corrective steps are being followed and may reinitiate this process if necessary.
  4. Unless the option in the previous step is exercised, the group recommends a  sanction.  Possible sanctions include mandatory training, denial of future grading assistantships, teaching assistantships, or research assistantships, transcript notation, and expulsion.
  5. The appropriate degree program director, department chair, or college dean enacts those sanctions, or enacts alternative sanctions providing a written rationale that is communicated to the group and the 6.x Office.
  6. The authority may initiate an appeal procedure.
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