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CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity

“Academic Dishonesty is prohibited in the City University of New York and is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension, and expulsion, as provided herein.”

– CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity

– Adopted by the Board of Trustees 6/28/2004

Please go to http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/policies/ for further information about:

· CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity

· BC Procedures for Implementing the CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity

· Flow Chart of the BC Procedures for Implementing the CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity.


The golden rules of email correspondence

  • Check your email daily.
  • ALWAYS put <yourname> IN THE SUBJECT. It’s not realistic to expect your instructors to remember the handles of dozens of students and who may be hiding behind flatbush-prince-of-darkness@blahblahblah.com.If you have a “funny” email address, you should consider getting a professional-looking email address. A common format is your first name’s initial followed by the last name. As an alternative you could use your last name followed by three or more digits that are easy to remember (street address, part of telephone number, etc.)
  • Email is a FORMAL means of communication (at least when you correspond with your professors or employers, etc.). Avoid abbreviations, slang and cuteness. Let’s treat each other with respect. Use capital letters, punctuation, greetings and salutations as in a professional message.
  • The use of magic words (please, thank you) and politeness in general is strongly encouraged.
  • Sign every message at the bottom. Why? Because it is GOOD MANNERS and if it is a long message, the reader doesn’t have to scroll up to check who the sender is (even profs suffer from ADD, sometime.).
  • When you send homework by email (you will be told when and if), into the SUBJECT you will enter <yourname> followed by the exact string of words you will be given. This allows your instructors to archive automatically your email into folders for easier retrieval and record keeping. Also, if the homework is to be sent as an ATTACHMENT, you will use the filename that will be given to you. This allows routing messages to the appropriate folders avoiding misplacement or deletion.

Exchange phone numbers or email addresses with more than one classmate. Please do not write to let your instructors know that you were not in class (they already know) or will miss class; to ask them to summarize what s/he did or will do in class; or what the assignment is/was. Email a classmate instead. Email your instructors only for SERIOUS AND MOTIVATED REASONS.