The extant document is a memo(1995) from
Robert Diaz , General Counsel and Vice Chancellor. The document carries the heading “Procedures
to be followed in Cases of Academic Dishonesty”
The document is not a program on Academic Integrity. TI is not related to academic integrity. It describes disciplinary procedures and
steps to be followed to insure the legally required observance of
a student’s right to due process.
That it avoids attempting to define terms, set policies or design a
program and that it avoids any mention of proactive
strategies or the overall importance of insuring academic
integrity might be taken as an acknowledgment that those activities are the responsibility
and prerogatives of the faculty. The
problem with that interpretation is that the procedures presented
in the document are intrusive and cumbersome and both
discouraging and thwarting faculty actions to enforce academic integrity.
The document opens with and does not vary from a concern for sanctioning
students and the need to observe due process.
It
attempts to impose a CUNY-wide procedure.
Thus
far it has failed to do so.