Text of  11/01/10 Email from Phil Furmanski, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Transmitting to the Senate the Final Draft of a Proposed New Academic Integrity Policy for Rutgers


The members of the Ad-Hoc Academic Integrity Committee have submitted to me their final draft of a proposed new Academic Integrity Policy for the University. I have accepted this draft from the committee and herewith submit it the University Senate for its approval. I would like to note the extraordinary efforts of the Ad Hoc Committee, and particularly its chair, Martha Cotter, in developing this proposed policy. The Committee engaged constituencies from throughout the
university community, on all campuses and at all levels, in this process. A key element in their deliberations was the education of committee members and others in the intricacies of current issues relating to academic integrity, including a comprehensive analysis of how these issues have been articulated and handled by peer institutions. The result is a thoughtful, rigorous, clear and practical policy, that places a great emphasis on teaching our students and holding them
responsible for the basic tenets of academic integrity in a manner befitting our institutional status and mission. We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Martha and her colleagues for all their hard work on the university's behalf in this regard. I look forward to the Senate's discussion of the proposed policy and its eventual adoption. Thank
you.

Phil Furmanski