Faculty Responsibility

Lesley faculty are responsible for setting academic standards, for awarding academic credit, and for conferring degrees when those standards are met. Inherent in these responsibilities is a duty to preserve and transmit the values of academic integrity through example in their own academic pursuits and through the learning environment that faculty create for students. The University expects that its faculty will instill a respect for academic integrity and will take measures to discourage academic dishonesty. (See Advice to Faculty at the end of this Policy.)

All faculty members are expected to follow this Policy when academic dishonesty is suspected. Every member of the Lesley faculty must ensure that student work submitted to them for academic credit is authentic as well as consistent with established academic standards. The conferring of a grade in a student’s work includes judgment by the faculty member that the student’s work is free from academic dishonesty. Grades may be adversely affected by academic dishonesty.

Faculty are strongly encouraged to talk with their immediate supervisor and/or Dean’s designee responsible for implementation of the policy whenever they have questions about a student’s work or the terms of this Policy.