Case Western Reserve University's Faculty Senate began its 2003-2004 academic year by voting to make a minor change to the University's relatively new undergraduate academic integrity policy.

The amendment gives faculty members greater discretion in dealing with a student's first violation of the policy. In the original guidelines, which became effective last year, the faculty member and dean of undergraduate studies were involved in the review of a student's first infraction. Now the faculty member alone can decide on the appropriate sanction when he or she and the student agree a violation has occurred.

The amendment, which the Faculty Senate passed unanimously, earlier was approved by the University Undergraduate Faculty (UUF).

Also during the meeting, the senate passed several resolutions from the School of Dentistry.

The resolutions, all previously approved by dental faculty, call for the dental school to change its name to the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine; to offer a degree of Doctor of Dental Medicine (D.D.M.) rather than Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.); to combine the departments of restorative dentistry and general practice dentistry into a new department for the practice of general dentistry; and to re-establish a department of biological sciences, previously called the department of oral biology, which was closed in 1992.

Each of the dental school resolutions requires approval from the Board of Trustees. The change to the academic integrity policy became effective with Faculty Senate and UUF approval.

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