The committee for hearing academic honesty cases
While all cases of breaches of academic integrity are heard by APRC, additional persons will join APRC for academic honesty hearings, as follows:
1) Student members: 2 (from a pool of up to 20)
a) At the beginning of each academic year, Community Council (ComCil) shall create a pool of up to twenty students, who have been at Antioch College for at least one full academic year
i) To maintain continuity, no more than ten members may be different than the previous academic year’s pool
ii) All members of the pool must be trained appropriately, including in the procedures for hearing academic honesty cases, on how to maintain strict integrity and confidentiality, etc. The Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) and ComCil will jointly decide how the training is to be conducted.
iii) No student who has been found guilty of an infraction of academic honesty may be a member of the pool.
b) When an academic honesty case is to be heard, the Registrar will select two trained students from the pool, who have no conflict of interest with the case at hand
2) Faculty members: As needed (to maintain integrity)
a) OAA shall maintain a pool of faculty members, who have been at Antioch College for at least one full academic year, and who are not currently away from the college for extended periods (research term, leave of absence, etc.)
i) All members of the pool must be trained appropriately, including in the procedures for hearing academic honesty cases, on how to maintain strict integrity and confidentiality, etc. The Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) will decide how the training is to be conducted.
b) When an academic honesty case is to be heard, the Registrar will replace any faculty member of APRC who has a conflict of interest with the case at hand, with a faculty member from the pool.
i) If a faculty member who normally serves on APRC has an advisee come before the committee, the faculty member shall recuse themselves of their role as an APRC member (with replacement as above), but may remain as the student’s advisor.
ii) If a faculty member who normally serves on APRC has brought the case of academic dishonesty against the accused student, the faculty member shall recuse themselves of their role as an APRC member (with replacement as above), but may remain as the complainant.
iii) No person who has brought an academic integrity case against the specific student may serve in a decision-making role on the committee.
3) Replacement of committee members in the case of conflict of interest
a) Any member of an academic honesty hearing case, who has a decision-making role on the committee, and who has a conflict of interest, must be replaced with another member of similar status, consistent with the composition of the committee.
i) While support persons for the student or faculty, and the student’s advisor, may not have decision-making roles on the committee, they may still be present, as they have an accepted vested interest.
b) Students and faculty will be replaced, as noted above.
c) Administrators from OAA with a conflict of interest will be replaced with another administrator of a similar type.
i) Instances of administrators with teaching and/or advising duties shall be handled similarly to the faculty cases above, except that another OAA administrator will fill their normal role on the committee