Graduate Students
Making the transition from student to instructor.
Graduate students are in a unique position at UBC in that they typically transition from students to instructors during the course of their studies.
In most cases, grad students can expect to take courses and teach courses at different times during graduate school. This means that grad students are expected to follow and promote both the values of academic integrity and scholarly integrity.
Besides the information provided via the student start page, there are additional resources that graduate students at UBC should check out.
Academic integrity versus scholarly integrity
The following is reproduced from the UBC Responsible Conduct of Research website.
Academic misconduct applies to instances of a student or people engaging in, attempting to engage in or assisting others to engage in actions such as cheating, plagiarism, falsifying records or other conduct that occurs during graded assignments established by instructors for specific courses at the university. Allegations of academic misconduct may be sent to the President’s Advisory Committees on Student Discipline. These committees are responsible for determining whether misconduct has occurred. The committees’ findings are reported to the president, who is responsible for decisions about discipline or other consequences.
Scholarly misconduct, by comparison, involves some of the same behaviours (e.g. plagiarism, fabricating research data), and could involve others ( e.g. misuse of grant funds, undeclared conflicts of interest or inappropriate authorship). The distinction between academic and scholarly misconduct is generally made based on whether the work in question is intended for publication. For example, an instance of a student’s paper containing plagiarized material but which was not intended for publication might be considered by the President’s Advisory Committee on Student Discipline. However, if that same paper was published or going to be published, then it would trigger an investigation under the Scholarly Integrity Policy.
Resources for graduate students
Teaching and learning
As grad students transition from students to instructors, they see academic integrity from both sides. Our teaching and learning information can help with both.
Role of the instructor
As their experience with teaching increases, so does their role as an instructor. Check out how the academic misconduct process works from the instructor’s point of view.
Dealing with misconduct
The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies has compiled a set of guidelines for handling grad students suspected of academic misconduct.
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