Resolution 09-21 ''I’m actually trying!''

Authored by:

Bryan Albers

Sponsored by:

Jamilah James

Date Submitted:

2009-09-28

Date Considered:

0000-00-00

Committee:

Academic Affairs

Action:

Amended in Committee

Result:

Killed in Committee 0-7-0

Remarks:

Whereas:

Cheating on exams is more visible to the student than the professor; and

Whereas:

Students have used other students from earlier class sections to obtain specific answers to exams; and

Whereas:

Students have retained said answers by making notes or inconspicuous markings on testing forms (i.e. scantrons and/or bluebooks) before the exam takes place; and

Whereas:

Such actions can unfairly advance some students while lessening the honest efforts of those who don't engage in said practices by lowering their overall class standing.

Be It Therefore Resolved That:

Students be required to supply each professor at the beginning of the semester with the number of testing forms equal to that of the number of exams that will be administered throughout the course; and

Be It Further Resolved That:

These testing forms be handed back to students only during a class in which an exam is being administered; and

Be It Further Resolved That:

Each professor put their own unique marking, stamp, or initialing on each testing form before the administering of exams to assure that materials handed back at the conclusion of each test are not exchanged with any forms brought into class by a student; and

Be It Further Resolved That:

Professors distribute at least two versions of each exam during testing periods.