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Academic Dishonesty Incident Report

Once you have completed the report in its entirety, PRINT THIS FORM, sign the printed copy and hand deliver to SSW-1604 or send through inter-campus mail to The Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities, MC-7443. Please attach copies of all supporting documentation.


In order to hold students accountable for multiple academic dishonesty, including situations that may occur in several departments, and in order to gain a better understanding of trends and educational needs relating to academic dishonesty, Executive Order 969* mandates faculty to report all incidents to the Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities.

* Executive Order 969 mandates faculty reporting. Executive Order 970 provides direction to the Center for Student Rights and responsibilities in adjudication of cases. For full details, see Executive Order 969, Executive Orders 970, and Section 41301, the Student Code of Conduct.

If you would like to discuss this incident with a judicial officer, and/or to learn more about the student discipline process, please call our office at (619) 594-3069.

California Code of Regulations, Article 2, Student Code of Conduct, Section 41301, includes the following behaviors relating to academic dishonesty, which are subject to disciplinary sanctions.

Which violation(s) are you reporting?

 that is intended to gain unfair academic advantage  

  that is intended to gain unfair academic advantage

that are intended to gain unfair academic advantage


In addition to yourself, who witnessed or had knowledge of this incident?


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Please briefly .
(In so doing, please be specific: i.e. How did you learn about or discover this incident? What, facts, actions did you observe? What statements were made by persons present?)


As a first step, you as a faculty member may sanction the student at your own discretion regarding the assignment or course grade.

What actions have you taken as a faculty member? (check all that apply)

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The role of the judicial officer is to review the student’s conduct at SDSU, including this incident, and intervene in a manner that is consistent with student disciplinary procedures. If found in violation, students are typically required to learn more about academic integrity as a component of their sanction. At the discretion of the judicial officer, further action may be taken for more serious incidents, or for repeated or multiple incidents known to this department, and this may result in a warning, judicial probation, suspension held in abeyance, or suspension, with educational sanctions assigned.

Based on this incident alone, do you recommend review for possible further action, beyond a warning letter, by this office?

Students vary in their levels of awareness. Is it your assessment that the student understood, at the time of the incident, that they were committing an act of academic dishonesty?

Does your syllabus address academic dishonesty, including cheating and plagiarism, and do you address it in class?

(please attach a copy)

Thank you for your educational contribution in assisting this student in forming academic values, responsibility, and citizenship.


Once you have completed the report in its entirety, , sign the printed copy, and hand deliver to SSW-1604 or send through inter-campus mail to The Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities, MC-7443. Please attach copies of all supporting documentation.



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