Teaching & Learning
- Hendrix College does not state a university-wide AI rule for coursework or assignments in the provided sources
- Its academic integrity policy broadly prohibits presenting someone else's work or work one did not do as one's own, which could apply if AI-generated work were submitted deceptively, but AI is not specifically addressed
Students at Hendrix College are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, and academic misconduct.
Plagiarism is a form of stealing; using someone else’s words, ideas, or data as if they were one’s own.
Academic misconduct is any other act (whether active or passive) by a student that subverts or compromises the integrity of the student’s own work, another student’s work, or the evaluation process. This includes, but is not limited to, concealing one’s own knowledge of a violation, giving false information regarding academic matters to the College, making up or changing data, allowing others to represent one’s work as their own, or representing as one’s own work that which one did not do.
- Hendrix College does not define an AI-specific rule for exams or assessments in the provided sources
- The general academic integrity policy prohibits cheating and compromising the evaluation process, but it does not mention AI tools in exam settings
Students at Hendrix College are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, and academic misconduct.
Academic misconduct is any other act (whether active or passive) by a student that subverts or compromises the integrity of the student’s own work, another student’s work, or the evaluation process.
Research
- The policy speaks in general research-integrity terms rather than addressing AI tools
- Hendrix College requires honesty and accuracy in scholarly work and prohibits plagiarism and fabrication in research-related writing, but the provided sources do not define any AI-specific rules for drafting, editing, or preparing manuscripts
The College expects all members of the faculty and staff, including student workers and volunteers, to maintain integrity in the treatment of all laboratory animals and in the conduct and reporting of all scientific and scholarly activities. Furthermore, all students are expected to maintain integrity in the conduct and reporting of all scientific and scholarly activities.
Scientific and scholarly misconduct consists of plagiarism and fabrication, falsification or suppression of results. The test for plagiarism shall be whether a person should reasonably have known that by publishing a phrase, sentence, paragraph or section in a thesis, article, report or oral presentation, he or she was claiming those words as his or her own. A finding of scientific or scholarly misconduct should not be based on honest error or genuine scientific or scholarly disagreement.
An investigator should never engage in fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or other practices that seriously deviate from those that are commonly accepted within the scientific and scholarly communities for proposing, conducting, or reporting research. An investigator should maintain confidentiality where warranted and acknowledge the contributions of others. Publications and authorship should accurately reflect the relative contributions of participants in the study, and reports of data and methods should permit a competent reader to judge the validity and significance of the research.
- Hendrix College prohibits making up, falsifying, or suppressing research results and requires accurate reporting of data and methods, but it does not define any AI-specific rules for data collection, analysis, statistics, or synthetic data in the provided sources
Scientific and scholarly misconduct consists of plagiarism and fabrication, falsification or suppression of results.
An investigator should never engage in fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or other practices that seriously deviate from those that are commonly accepted within the scientific and scholarly communities for proposing, conducting, or reporting research. An investigator should maintain confidentiality where warranted and acknowledge the contributions of others. Publications and authorship should accurately reflect the relative contributions of participants in the study, and reports of data and methods should permit a competent reader to judge the validity and significance of the research.
Risks to subjects are minimized: (i) by using procedures which are consistent with sound research design and which do not unnecessarily expose subjects to risk
- However, the provided sources do not define AI-specific rules for grant proposals, IRB applications, ethics declarations, or other research-integrity filings
- Hendrix College has general research integrity and human-subjects oversight requirements, including prohibitions on plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, and suppression of results, and expects confidentiality where warranted
The College expects all members of the faculty and staff, including student workers and volunteers, to maintain integrity in the treatment of all laboratory animals and in the conduct and reporting of all scientific and scholarly activities. Furthermore, all students are expected to maintain integrity in the conduct and reporting of all scientific and scholarly activities.
Scientific and scholarly misconduct consists of plagiarism and fabrication, falsification or suppression of results.
An investigator should never engage in fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or other practices that seriously deviate from those that are commonly accepted within the scientific and scholarly communities for proposing, conducting, or reporting research. An investigator should maintain confidentiality where warranted and acknowledge the contributions of others.
No faculty member, student, or staff member may conduct human subjects research without obtaining approval from the HSRB prior to involving human subjects in the research.
Academic Integrity
- There is no stated requirement to disclose use of AI tools in submitted academic work
- Hendrix College requires attribution of others' words, ideas, and data through its plagiarism and research-integrity rules, but the provided sources do not set any AI-specific disclosure, citation, or transparency requirement
Plagiarism is a form of stealing; using someone else’s words, ideas, or data as if they were one’s own.
The test for plagiarism shall be whether a person should reasonably have known that by publishing a phrase, sentence, paragraph or section in a thesis, article, report or oral presentation, he or she was claiming those words as his or her own.
An investigator should maintain confidentiality where warranted and acknowledge the contributions of others.
- Enforcement is handled through faculty reporting and student-conduct processes for cheating, plagiarism, and other academic misconduct
- Hendrix College provides enforcement procedures and sanctions for academic dishonesty through its academic integrity policy, but it does not mention AI-detection tools in the provided sources
A faculty member who suspects a student of a breach of academic integrity may handle the case directly with the student involved or may refer the case to the Office of Student Conduct.
A student who is found responsible for breaching academic integrity may receive sanctions ranging from a warning up to expulsion from the College, depending on the severity of the offense.
Possible sanctions are outlined in the section on Sanctions in the Student Handbook.
Institutional & Administrative
- The provided Hendrix sources do not define faculty or staff use of AI for grading, feedback, lesson planning, recommendation letters, or administrative communications
- They do, however, impose general duties on employees to use institutional technology appropriately, protect confidential information, and avoid unauthorized disclosure
Authorized users of technology resources are responsible for:
• Using technology resources only for intended purposes and in accordance with applicable policies and laws
• Protecting their account credentials and preventing unauthorized access
• Respecting the privacy and intellectual property rights of others
• Ensuring that use of technology resources does not interfere with college operations, compromise security, or damage systems, networks, or data
• Promptly reporting security incidents, policy violations, and suspected breaches to Technology Services
Users shall not:
• Share confidential or sensitive college information without authorization
• Use technology resources in violation of local, state, or federal laws or regulations
- The provided sources do not identify approved AI platforms, banned AI tools, or AI-specific data-classification tiers
- Hendrix College requires authorized users to protect account credentials, respect privacy, avoid compromising security, and not share confidential or sensitive college information without authorization
Authorized users of technology resources are responsible for:
• Protecting their account credentials and preventing unauthorized access
• Respecting the privacy and intellectual property rights of others
• Ensuring that use of technology resources does not interfere with college operations, compromise security, or damage systems, networks, or data
• Promptly reporting security incidents, policy violations, and suspected breaches to Technology Services
Users shall not:
• Share confidential or sensitive college information without authorization
• Attempt to bypass security mechanisms, gain unauthorized access, or impair the functionality of any college-owned or college-managed technology resources
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Common Questions About Hendrix College's AI Policies
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Hendrix College requires attribution of others' words, ideas, and data through its plagiarism and research-integrity rules, but the provided sources do not set any AI-specific disclosure, citation, or transparency requirement. There is no stated requirement to disclose use of AI tools in submitted academic work.
Hendrix College provides enforcement procedures and sanctions for academic dishonesty through its academic integrity policy, but it does not mention AI-detection tools in the provided sources. Enforcement is handled through faculty reporting and student-conduct processes for cheating, plagiarism, and other academic misconduct.
Hendrix College requires authorized users to protect account credentials, respect privacy, avoid compromising security, and not share confidential or sensitive college information without authorization. The provided sources do not identify approved AI platforms, banned AI tools, or AI-specific data-classification tiers.