<p>My class is divided into two parts - I have one professor for the first half of the quarter and another for the second half. Early in the first half, I panicked and cheated on a homework assignment. I immediately regretted doing it, but was afraid of speaking up about it. I received the assignment back with a non-zero grade, so I assumed no one was the wiser.</p>
<p>Between then and the end of the quarter, I developed a good relationship with my first professor - I spent a lot of time in office hours for homework help. A couple days ago, when asking about my grade for the course's second half, the second professor mentioned this incident. I had no idea I was caught, because no one had ever mentioned anything about it for 2.5 months, and I wouldn't even have heard about it when I did had I not asked about my grade. College policy says the Dean needs to inform the student at least two days before a "hearing"... The second professor said administration must have put the issue on the backburner. </p>
<p>/For nine weeks?/</p>
<p>Could my first professor have dropped the cheating charges somehow, because she realized I was a good student? Or am I underestimating college administrative bureaucracy, and they really have put this issue off until the very end of the semester?</p>
<p>This is not the kind of situation in which I’d expect strangers on the Internet to know more than the professors and deans at your college.</p>
<p>True enough, but this post is partially a stress vent and partially a request for others to share their experiences in dealing with similar situations.</p>
<p>OK.</p>
<p>But why? Others’ experiences are completely irrelevant. The only thing that you should be worrying about is your own situation.</p>
<p>I get that you’re anxious. I just don’t see how this thread can play any valuable role in relieving your anxiety.</p>
<p>I suppose mainly I was wondering if anybody has ever heard of a case where college administration took serious action about a cheating charge, after going anything approaching nine weeks without informing the student of the charge.</p>
<p>I was maliciously accused in a past year. The process here interviewed others, but told them they couldn’t tell me. I had actually dropped the class in questions (for other reasons) months before I was actually informed I was being charged. The case was ultimately withdrawn, but it was forever before I actually knew.</p>
<p>I feel saddened by what professors–whose primary mission is to promote and enhance the educational experience–have become.</p>
<p>I just don’t understand how a student can be expected to defend themselves from an accusation months after the fact, when they might not even remember the incident in question. Seems like that really stacks the deck</p>
<p>well you remembered that you cheated on the assignment months after it happened. That is all you need to know to testify.</p>
<p>How people deal with cheating differs greatly on the person. The two cases I’ve seen in my major were both pretty lenient and resolved without an external board. The first case involved a solution manual that had an obviously wrong answered and if you had that answered, you got half off the assignment. The second was a programming class where if your code was the same or very similar to someone else’s, you had to resubmit it with the associated late penalty. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, a couple of friends in chemical engineering were lab partners and had graphs that looked similar (they did it together on separate computers) and the professor deemed this cheating. They eventually had to drop the class or go through a lengthy appeal process.</p>
<p>In my opinion, if it was mentioned only after you asked and nothing more came of it, you should be fine.</p>
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<p>If the syllabus said you had to do assignments individually/couldn’t work in groups then this is in fact cheating.</p>
<p>It was a one credit lab class with no syllabus and you were expected to work with your lab partner outside of class on the assignment as you were supposed to compare data. The reason it was deemed cheating is that the graphs were formatted the same way (title on the bottom), and one graph had the the person’s own data first on the key and the other had the other person’s first, making it look like they just changed the key. (They are my roommates and I read the data out loud. They then put it into their respective excel documents, so they had the same data in each column but it meant the opposite to each person.) This was all from a graph that was 10/100 points on one assignment as well.</p>
<p>So back to the point, if the professor was anal like this and you were in trouble, you would probably already know. There are also professors who know solution guides are out there and don’t do anything if you use it. My aerodynamics teacher just changed the numbers in the book problems and encouraged us to use the solution guide.</p>
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<p>ok, in that case calling that cheating seems a little absurd.</p>