ROWAN UNIVERSITY POLICY

Title: Turnitin

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Policy

Subject: Academic Affairs

Policy No: AA: 2015: 16

Applies: University-Wide

Issuing Authority: Provost / Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Responsible Officer: Deans

Adopted: 

Amended: 

Last Revision: 08/01/2015

I. PURPOSE

The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines for the volitional use of Turnitin, an online service that can be used to detect and prevent plagiarism in student assignments.

II. ACCOUNTABILITY

Under direction of the Provost, all Deans and Department Chairs shall implement this policy and all faculty shall ensure compliance with the policy.

III. APPLICABILITY

This policy applies to all students of Rowan University.

IV. POLICY

Rowan University has a license agreement with Turnitin, an online service that can be used to detect and prevent plagiarism in student assignments. Student papers are protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) as they are educational records that may contain personally identifiable information.
All faculty choosing to use Turnitin or any other plagiarism detection services:

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