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SELECT GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE POLICIES
(To access all Board Policies and Administrative Regulations go to www.glendale.edu/boardpoliciesandadministrativeregulations)
ACADEMIC FREEDOM POLICY
The Board of Trustees of Glendale Community College
affirms that institutions of higher education are conducted
for the common good and not to further the interest of
either the individual faculty member or the institution as
a whole. The common good depends upon the free search
for truth and its exposition.
Academic freedom is essential to these purposes and applies
to all disciplines. Freedom in research is fundamental to the
advancement of truth. Academic freedom in all disciplines
is fundamental for the protection of the rights of the faculty
and the student. It carries with it duties correlative with
rights, regardless of employment status.
Academic freedom is essential for the maintenance of
excellence in education, and moreover, exists so that society
may have benefits of objective and independent criticism,
and honest answers to scientific, social and artistic questions
that might otherwise be withheld for fear of offending
an influential social group or transient social attitude.
Accordingly, there shall be no adverse consequences to
employment status (hiring, promotion, and retention) as
a result of expressions protected by academic freedom.
Academic Freedom
Faculty members are entitled to full freedom in research and in
the publication of the results, subject to the adequate performance
of their other academic duties; but research for pecuniary return
should be based upon an understanding with the authorities of
the institution.
Faculty are entitled to freedom in discussing their subject, but
they should be careful not to introduce into their teaching con-
troversial matter which has no relation to their subject. When
they communicate as individuals, they should be free from
institutional censorship or discipline, but their special position
in the community imposes special obligations. As scholars and
educational officers, they should remember that the public may
judge their profession and their institution by their utterances.
Hence they should at all times strive to be accurate, should exer-
cise appropriate restraint, should show respect for the opinions
of others, and should make every effort to indicate that they are
not speaking for the institution.
Faculty are entitled to due process, where applicable under the
provision of the Guild contract, and where applicable under
the Employee Complaints procedure as conducted under the
provisions of Board Policy 7216.
Academic Responsibility
Membership in the academic community imposes on
students, faculty members, and administrators an obligation
to respect the dignity of others, to acknowledge their right
to express differing opinions, and to foster and defend
intellectual honesty, in instruction and counseling, and
expression on and off campus. In addition, faculty are
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responsible for but not limited to policies and procedures
defined in board policy, administrative regulations, and
the employment contract between the District and the
Guild. Students are entitled to an atmosphere conducive
to learning and to even-handed treatment in all aspects of
the faculty-students relationship.(BP 4030)
POLICY ON ACADEMIC HONESTY
College study is the process of acquainting students with
values and procedures central to scholarship. All students
are expected to do their own work. All forms of cheating
and plagiarism are absolutely forbidden. This is the official
policy of Glendale Community College.
The following behaviors serve as an operational description
of student violations of academic honesty:
1. The student takes or copies answers from another student
or source or uses unauthorized materials during a test.
2. The student turns in an assignment (labs, art projects,
homework, prewritten or purchased papers, or work
downloaded from the Internet) which is not his/her own.
3. The student uses words or ideas which are not his/her
own without acknowledgment of the source (plagiarism).
4. The student knowingly deceives an instructor with the
intent to improve his/her standing in class.
5. The student submits the same paper or project previously
submitted in another class without the permission of the
current instructor.
6. The student depends upon tools or assistance prohibited
by the instructor in writing papers, preparing reports,
solving problems, or carrying out other assignments.
7. The student acquires, without permission, tests or other
academic materials belonging to a member of the GCC
faculty or staff.
When a student engages in academic dishonesty, faculty have
the option of requiring the student to see a college counselor
or assigning a lower or failing (F) for the assignment.
Violations of this policy will be reported to the Vice President
of Instruction and will become part of the Glendale College
Cheating Incident file, unless the instructor finds compelling
reasons not to report a violation. The Vice President of
Instruction may then impose sanctions authorized by
Administrative Regulation 5420. The sanctions include,
but are not limited to, issuing a reprimand, suspending the
student for up to ten days of instruction, and/or requesting
a hearing by the Campus Judicial Board to see if the student
should be suspended, or permanently expelled from the
college.
The student has the right of due process for all the
above sanctions.