Graduate Curriculum Committee - zicklin : school of business - CUNY

• An e-mail written to a professor (like an e-mail to a work supervisor or business colleague)
should be considered professional correspondence and should be written accordingly. It
should be in grammatically correct, formal English, spell-checked, and have a subject line
that properly identifies the subject of the e-mail.
• All e-mail communication from the professor to the students will be sent to the student’s
official Baruch e-mail account. It is, therefore, important that students regularly check their
Baruch email accounts.
Attendance and Class Participation
Active learning is encouraged, which means that the instructor will avoid lecturing and instead
encourage class participation and student engagement. All students are expected to be present
and on time at each session and to participate regularly in class discussions. Students will be
evaluated on the basis of the frequency and quality of their contributions to class discussion.
Academic Integrity:
Baruch College’s Policy on Academic Dishonesty can be found on the college website at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/academic/academic_honesty.html. I fully support this policy,
which states, in part:
Academic dishonesty is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Cheating, forgery,
plagiarism and collusion in dishonest acts undermine the college’s educational mission and
the students' personal and intellectual growth. Baruch students are expected to bear
individual responsibility for their work, to learn the rules and definitions that underlie the
practice of academic integrity, and to uphold its ideals. Ignorance of the rules is not an
acceptable excuse for disobeying them. Any student who attempts to compromise or
devalue the academic process will be sanctioned.
The Baruch College website goes on to explain the concept of plagiarism as follows:
Plagiarism is the act of presenting another person’s ideas, research or writing as your own:
• Copying another person’s actual words without the use of quotation marks and
footnotes.
• Presenting another person’s ideas or theories in your own words without
acknowledging them.
• Using information that is not considered common knowledge without acknowledging
the source.
• Failure to acknowledge collaborators on homework and laboratory assignments.
The Library has a plagiarism tutorial on its website. I strongly suggest that you complete the
tutorial: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/help/plagiarism/Index.htm.
IF YOU ARE STILL IN DOUBT, DON’T DO IT!
Any act of plagiarism or academic dishonesty with regards to your work in this course will
result in a failing grade in the course. Furthermore, a full report of any academic
dishonesty or plagiarism will be made to the appropriate College authorities.