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Exam Exception
Policy
Residence and Time
Limit
Prevention of
Academic Dishonesty
Grade Appeals Process:
Exam
Exception Policy
Students at corporate sites who are unable to take an exam
on the designated date should contact their site administrator
as far in advance as possible to request an alternate date.
The site administrator will work with the Rensselaer staff
to obtain permission from the instructor and reschedule
the exam. Please note that permission is not guaranteed.
Individual students who are unable to take
an exam on the designated date should refer to their Rensselaer
point of contact to request permission to take the exam
at an alternate time.
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Residence
and Time Limit
A student earning a master's degree is required to complete
a minimum of 24 credit hours at Rensselaer for each Master
of Science or Master of Engineering degree sought.
Students engaged in working professional
programs (part-time students) must complete all work for
the master's degrees requiring 30 credits within three calendar
years of the original admission date. Those working professionals
pursuing master's degrees requiring 60 credits must complete
the requirements within five years, beginning with the date
of the original admissions letter. Extensions may only be
granted if the student is in good academic standing and
has an acceptable Plan of Study. Working professionals must
petition the Dean responsible for Education for Working
Professionals for an extension. Final approval may be granted
by the Dean of Graduate Education at Rensselaer.
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Prevention
of Academic Dishonesty
For those courses or academic exercises in which either
the instructor or student considers proper definition of
academic dishonesty to be open to interpretation, the instructor
is expected to outline his or her particular standards.
An example for which such definition seems particularly
necessary would be collaboration on out-of-class assignments.
Course supervisors are expected to provide
adequate and conscientious proctoring for examinations.
Faculty and proctors have the option of asking a student
for identification during an exam or exercise, and take
reasonable precautions to lessen probability of academic
dishonesty occurring, such as requiring that all personal
belongings, texts, etc., be placed away from desks in the
examination room.
Policy for Academic Dishonesty
- Academic Fraud
Alteration of documentation relating to the grading process.
For example changing exam solutions to negotiate for a
higher grade or tampering with an instructor's grade book.
- Collaboration
Deliberate facilitation of academic dishonesty in any
form. For example, allowing another student to observe
an exam paper or allowing another student to "recycle"
one's old term paper.
- Copying
Obtaining information pertaining to an exam question by
deliberately observing the paper of another student. For
example, noting which alternative a neighboring student
has circled in a multiple-choice exam.
- Cribbing
Use or attempted use of prohibited materials, information,
or study aids in an academic exercise. For example, using
an unauthorized formula sheet during an exam.
- Fabrication
Unauthorized falsification or invention of any information
in an academic exercise. For example, use of "bought"
or "ready-made" term papers, or falsifying lab
records.
- Plagiarism
Representing the work or words of another as one's own
through the omission of acknowledgment or reference. For
example, using sentences verbatim from a published source
in a term paper without appropriate referencing, or presenting
as one's own the detailed argument of a published source.
- Sabotage
Destruction of another student's work related to an academic
exercise. For example, destroying a mode, lab experiment,
computer program, or term paper developed by another student.
- Substitution
Utilizing a proxy, or acting as a proxy, in any academic
exercise. For example, taking an exam for another student
or having a homework assignment done by someone else.
The definitions and examples presented
above are samples of the various types of academic dishonesty
and are not to be construed as an exhaustive or exclusive
list. Additionally, attempts to commit academic dishonesty
or to assist in the commission or attempt of such an act,
are also a violation of this policy. If found in violation
of academic dishonesty policies, students may be subject
to two types of penalties. The instructor administers an
academic penalty (i.e. failure of the course), and the student
may also be subject to the procedures and penalties of the
student judicial system outlined in the handbook.
NOTE: Students who have
been found in violation of academic dishonesty policies
are prohibited from dropping a course in order to avoid
academic penalty.
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