On September 26, 2023, the Senate Governance Committee approved the request to review the Student Academic Misconduct (70) policy. The policy request is available here.
A working group has been established, comprised of faculty, staff, students, and administrators. Policy 70 Working Group membership list.
Meeting Updates
February 20, 2024
- The Policy 70 working group had its first meeting together on Feb 20, 2024 to review the work and commitments as directed by Senate Governance Committee on Sept 26, 2023.
- Activities will be for 2 years with the outcome of informing a revised Policy 70 (including Regulations and Procedures) that will be brought to the UFV community for consultation and then Senate for decision.
- Approach and design is as a “hub & spoke” where, monthly, members will take information/ideas out to the university community to share, test ideas, and gather feedback to bring back to the working group to process and collectively make decisions that reflect the university community.
March 8, 2024
- Policy 70 working group received two presentation to help inform decisions related to the review process and areas of focus. Presentations were from Dr. Alisa Webb, UFV’s past Policy 70 revisions chair (2017-2019) and Dr. Brit Paris, Capilano University’s Academic Integrity policy revisions chair.
- Process. The following was identified as important: ongoing feedback, engagement, and testing ideas with the UFV community throughout the revisions period (e.g. surveys, forums, listening tours, including staff, students); engaging staff, students, administrators, and faculty in revisions process; and, recognizing that greater education, training and support for faculty, staff, and administrators to support policy 70 is needed. Other activities to support revisions include: audits of academic misconduct complaints and results from the past 2 years, wide scan of academic misconduct across Canada and internationally, and review of academic misconduct policies that were revised in the last year that address generative artificial intelligence.
- Areas of Focus. Policy 70 working group discussed potential areas of focus for the revisions based on what they learned from the presentations and the feedback that was collected from the UFV community in June – September 2023.
- Members of the UFV community who would like to keep informed about the progress of the Policy 70 working group can view updates on this webpage.
May 2, 2024
- Information regarding the process for reviewing Policy 70, including the regulations/procedures, and the areas of focus will be summarized and shared with the P70 Working Group prior to presenting to Senate for information at the June 7 meeting.
- Communication strategy differs from traditional consultation strategies at UFV. The working group is using a ‘hub and spoke’ strategy, where P70 working group members use their established communication networks to share out key information of the review process and collect and share back feedback as ideas are being explored and strategies are being tested. Many cycles of communication to share and gather feedback, will inform the final draft of a revised policy and regulations/procedures that will then be shared through traditional consultation activities (e.g. faculty councils) and governance systems (e.g. CWC, Senate).
- Working group members explored individual and shared beliefs, assumptions, practices, and values related to academic integrity and misconduct.
June 3, 2024
- Share back of feedback received from member’s spheres of influence.
- Identified gaps in P70WG member’s spheres of influence and began to develop strategies to support our goal.
- An update on the process and areas of focus was provided to Senate at it’s June 7th meeting. A fuller presentation will be provided to Senate in November 2024.
- The working group will resume in September.
September 23, 2024
- Share back from working group members on observations of academic misconduct activities over the past 4 months that relate to faculty and student communication, inconsistent application of policy 70, and an interest in building awareness of rights and responsibilities.
- Repeated requests for direction on detecting and investigating the use of AI in student academic work. The direction and decisions regarding the use of AI is the responsibility of the AI task force. Also, refer to the AI guidelines. Current policy 70 addresses the use of AI, referring to it as 'unauthorized technologies.'
- Identified the need for the creation of resources to support students and faculty in navigating the process.
- Demonstration of the new digital reporting for academic misconduct and student appeals and an introduction to the new Student Rights and Responsibilities Office.
- Ideation of a revised process for responding to academic misconduct at UFV
Please check back for regular updates.
If you have any questions, please contact Liana Thompson, Executive Director, Student Academic Affairs