Positive Participation

Positive participation is required for courses, practical activities, directed activities, laboratory sessions, etc. No absence, even a justified one, liberates the student from his/her responsibilities regarding the work required or regarding whatever the teacher may have said during his/her absence.

The student can be absent to the number of hours equal to 20 % of the course: 9 hours (6 sessions of one hour and 15 minutes for a three credit course), or 6 hours (4 sessions of one hour and 15 minutes for a two credit course).

A student who exceeds this limit in a certain course might be given the grade FW (Fail to Withdraw) by the teacher concerned, and, subsequently, will not be able to present his/her exams.

A student who does not show up to all his/her courses for more than three consecutive weeks will be considered by the administration as having resigned; he/she will be given the grade FW (Fail to Withdraw) in all his/her courses and will be consequently excluded from his/her academic program at the end of the semester. However, the student can present a readmission demand to the Faculty/Institute in order to continue his/her education, starting from the following semester (a readmission form must be presented to the Registrar Office); after that, the Admission Committee will have to decide whether to accept or refuse this readmission request.

If the student justifies the exceptional circumstances of his/her absence to all the courses for three consecutive weeks, he/she can apply for a Term Withdraw by presenting the appropriate form to the Registrar Office.

Intellectual Integrity

Intellectual integrity is at the core of University learning and is compromised by plagiarism and fraud.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism consists of someone pretending that other people’s ideas and statements are his/her own. For example, plagiarism cases comprise:

• Copying texts or parcels of texts without indicating they are borrowings and without citing their source;
• Omitting to cite the source of a paraphrased or summarized text.

Fraud

Fraud cases include for example the following situations:

• To present, under one’s own name, a text partially or entirely prepared by someone else;
• To borrow, buy, sell or lend a text that is to be presented for a course;
• To submit the same text in more than one course;
• To receive or give help or information from, or to, another student during a test or an exam;
• To use unauthorized material during a test or an exam;
• To present, during a test and under one’s own name, a text partially or entirely prepared by someone else;
• To submit false information in a work or a report;
• To obtain the questions of a test or exam in an unauthorized way;
• To pretend to be someone else during a test or an exam, or let someone else do the test or the exam.

A student who commits plagiarism or fraud will be given, the grade 0 or F on the plagiarized work or the exam during which the fraud was committed. The teacher must report this fraud to the Dean/Director, who will have to evaluate its gravity before deciding whether he wants to submit the case or not to the University President; the latter will therefore be able to refer the case to the Council of Discipline.

Appeal Procedure in the Application of Academic Regulations and Petitions
The student who considers that he/she was wrongly accused, can appeal against the decision taken on his/her behalf.
In order to do so, the student must refer to the Student Affairs Office which will give him/her the appropriate form related to his/her request/situation or ask him/her to write a petition (a petition cannot be accepted if there is a form concerning the same exposed request).

The student will have to submit his/her petition at latest one week after the release of the official notification of the contested decision. This petition is submitted free of charge.

The application of every appeal outcome is suspended until it is confirmed by the Student Affairs Office (SAO) which will communicate the relevant decision within ten working days after receiving the petition. The SAO final decisions are enforceable and have no recourse. The SAO makes sure the University regulations are applied.