How to Deal with the Problem

Members of the Faculty have a clear professional responsibility to minimize the opportunities for academic dishonesty. To meet this responsibility, the College Council has voted (November 11, 1981) to observe the following practices:

1. The instructor or a Faculty colleague should actively monitor all exams, including make-ups and exams given early. Secretaries, student assistants, and other staff members should not be asked to give or monitor exams.
2. Instructors should not leave the classroom during examinations.
3. Students should bring to the classroom only those materials necessary for taking the examination. All other books, notes and materials should be left outside the classroom, or in a common location within the room. (In 2013, it was noted that the same precautions should be taken with cell phones).
4. Students should be separated and dispersed throughout the classroom as much as possible. If the instructor anticipates that the scheduled room will be too small to assure adequate dispersal, the Registrar should be informed so that alternate arrangements can be suggested.
5. Students ordinarily should not be permitted to leave the classroom unless the exam is administered in sections. In other cases where it is clearly necessary for a student to leave the room, the student should leave individually and the instructor should take reasonable precautions to prevent access to test materials.
6. Instructors with multiple sections of the same course should make separate examinations.
7. Students taking earlier exams or make-up exams should be given exams different from those given to the regular class.
8. Instructors should check footnotes and references.
9. Instructors should vary topics of written assignments to minimize the use of previously written papers.
10. Instructors should repeatedly emphasize the proper referencing of sources, recognizing that the style of referencing varies among academic disciplines.