Code of Student Ethics
Indiana University regulations governing the actions and interactions of members of the university community are intended to enhance the values which must be maintained in the pursuit of the university's purposes and goals of preserving, improving, increasing, transmitting, and applying knowledge. These values include freedom of inquiry, commitment of searching for the truth, the exercise of the critical judgment, intellectual honesty, freedom for the open expression of ideas and opinions with limits that protest the rights of others, respect for the news and the dignity of other persons, and openness to constructive change.
The Indiana University Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct is outlined and defined in the August 15, 1997, publication which defines student rights and responsibilities, including individual rights in the areas of freedom from unlawful sexual harassment, racial harassment, and harassment based on sexual orientation. This code exists as a guide for students, faculty, and staff and is available from the MBA Office or from the Office of the Dean of Students to assist students in the conduct of their affairs.
MBA Code of Student Ethics
The MBA student is expected, in all activities and relationships connected with their academic program, to act in a professional manner. This expectation implies being honest and acting in good faith. The following activities are prohibited: cheating (including unauthorized cooperation or the use of unauthorized material in preparing an assignment to be graded), plagiarism, changing a grade in connection with any assignment, gaining unauthorized access to an examination, using without authorization the same material in preparing assignments in two separate courses, lying to instructors or school administrators, and knowingly permitting copying or other participation in dishonest behavior.
Academic Misconduct
Indiana University, like all academic institutions, exists for the advancement of knowledge, the pursuit of truth, the development of students, and the promotion of the general well-being of society. Free inquiry and free expression are indispensable to the attainment of these goals. Students are expected to exercise their freedom to learn with responsibility and to respect the general conditions which maintain such freedom. The university has developed general regulations concerning student conduct which safeguard the right of every individual student to exercise fully the freedom to learn without interference.
The university may discipline a student for academic misconduct which is defined as any activity which tends to compromise the academic integrity of the institution and undermine the educational process. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to cheating, including unauthorized cooperation or the use of unauthorized material in preparing an assignment to be graded, fabrication, plagiarism, interference, violation of course rules, and facilitating academic dishonesty and all other defined by the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct issued by Indiana University, August 15, 1997.
The university may also discipline a student for acts of personal misconduct which occur on university property and include falsifying emergency warnings, release of access codes for university resources, lewd, indecent, or obscene conduct, unauthorized entry, damage to university or property belonging to others, sexual or racial harassment, and verbal abuse and all other acts of personal misconduct as defined by the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct issued by Indiana University August 15, 1997.
A faculty member who believes that a student has engaged in any form of academic dishonesty shall initiate the following process:
- Hold an informal conference with the student to discuss the matter and include information on both the act and the information upon which the allegation is based. The student must be given an opportunity to respond to the allegation of misconduct.
- If the faculty member concludes that the student did commit the act of misconduct, the faculty member is authorized to impose an appropriate academic sanction related to the particular course involved.
- The faculty member is required to report the matter promptly in writing to the student, the dean, the director of the Graduate School of Business, and the Dean of Students.
- The student has the right to appeal the faculty member's decision that the student committed the act of misconduct, the faculty member's decision to impose a particular academic sanction, or the decision of the Dean of Students to impose an additional sanction. The appeal must be filed within five days of receiving written notice of the sanction.
