IMPORTANT SMU POLICIES (and some general resources)

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY The Honor Code

Examples of prohibited conduct Academic Sabotage: Intentionally taking any action which negatively affects the academic work of another student. Cheating: Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise. Fabrication: Intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise Plagiarism: Intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise.

Options for instructors Handle the situation privately with the student: Inform the student of the alleged misconduct Determine the student of the penalty you would impose for the conduct Determine whether to notify the Dean of Student Life of the violation (official form Officially notify the Honor Council, which begins the formal investigation and hearing process, within 22 class days of when the violation was discovered.

STUDENT PRIVACY FAMILY EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS & PRIVACY ACT

Protecting student privacy DODO NOT DO refer requests to the Registrar’s Office when you are uncertain how to respond. DO NOT display student scores or grades publicly in association with names, student ID numbers (even the last 4 digits of the SSN) or other personal Identifiers. DO use Blackboard to give individual students access to their grades and assignments. DO NOT put exam papers containing student names and grades in publicly accessible places. Students should not have access to the scores and grades of the other students in the class. DO hide confidential information on computer screens from unauthorized individuals. DO NOT share student education record information with other campus officials unless there is "legitimate educational need" for that information.

QUESTIONS ABOUT FERPA? See the FAQs on the Registrar’s website: FERPA Tutorial and Quiz:

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Between TA and student

Prohibited It is a serious breach of professional ethics for a teacher to initiate or acquiesce in a sexual relationship with a student who is under the personal supervision of the faculty member. Therefore, Southern Methodist University prohibits consensual sexual relationships between a faculty member and a student enrolled in a course taught by the faculty member, or whose work, academic or otherwise, is supervised by the faculty member. This applies even when both parties appear to have consented to the relationship. SMU University Policy Manual section 2.5

Sexual harassment prevention Online tutorial at Development/TotalOrientationProcess/PSHTutorial Development/TotalOrientationProcess/PSHTutorial

RESOURCES

More SMU policies on teaching General Policies: CTE/Resources/TeachingPoli cies CTE/Resources/TeachingPoli cies SACS Assessment: assessment

TA teaching resources Resources for TAs: Resources Resources Teaching Resources Generally: Teaching Labs & Studios: TeachingSituations/LabsStudios TeachingSituations/LabsStudios Online Tool “Solve a Teaching Problem”: