How does involving the Office of Student Conduct affect my ability to assign the student a grade?
Professor of History of Art: After my experiences with OSC-equivalents at other institutions, I was amazed the first time I worked with OSC, that if OSC determines a sanctionable offense has been committed, it is up to the instructor to determine the grade the student will get or whether additional or different work will be required. OSC is not involved with grading. Faculty may mistrust the idea of turning students over to academic bureaucracy, either because they fear it may be lenient on “pampered” Penn students or because the punishment will be overly harsh. However, faculty maintain the power to shape outcomes to the extent that the student’s grade remains within the faculty’s sole purview. The instructor is not cut out of the loop.
