The Academic Integrity Office supports the UC San Diego community in reducing academic misconduct and enhancing academic integrity.

Faculty and teaching assistants, you are critical players in ensuring the integrity of student academic work.

Faculty responsibilities

• Articulating expectations for each individual assignment
• Clarifying the rules for completing academic work
• Ensuring fair and meaningful assessments
• Monitoring student activity and reducing opportunities for cheating
• Reporting academic misconduct to the Academic Integrity Office

Prevent cheating before it occurs

• Enhancing Academic Integrity in Your Classroom
• Including Academic Integrity in Your Class Syllabus
  • Suggested Academic Integrity Statements for Syllabi
  • Suggested Policy for Responding to Academic Misconduct
• Suggested Policies for Assignments
• Suggested Regrading Policy
• How to Use Turnitin

Respond to cheating

• Responding to Suspected Cheating
• Talking to a Student Suspected of Cheating
• Instructor Report Form for academic misconduct (Word file)

After you report cheating

• After You Report Academic Misconduct

Other tools and resources

• Policy on Integrity of Scholarship and Instructor's Guide
• Resources for Faculty (links to Web sites, articles, and books)

Questions? Contact the Academic Integrity Office, (858) 822-2163.