Hi, I am in need of desperate help?

Question

I have a real problem? I am in need of your help.

Me and a classmate worked on a problem and submitted the project to the professor seperately but the professor know that we both have worked on that project.

But still for some reason he complained about me to student judicial service.

What i wanted to know is Is that going to be a problem to my carreer? and How can i resolve that problem.

I am in now contact with the other student and moreover the class i have taken is for last semister, and i have no records of that class i recycled all the paper work.
the professor is a part time faculty

I am doing a graduate program
I have never faced this problem before.

Answer 1

First you need to know exactly what complaint your professor brought to the student judicial service. Speak with your professor, and with the student judicial servcice to discover what your transgression was. Are you absolutely certain that your prof knows you worked on this project with your classmate? Does the classmate you completed the work with have the same viewpoint as you?

Second, have you had a similar problem with this (or any other professor) before that would have prompted him/her to take his issue to the 'authorities'?

Generally speaking a professor in any university will do their best to bring an issue with a student's work to the student before they move elsewhere with it. For example say you have passed in a paper that the prof knows is not 100% your own work. Before you would be accused of cheating, they or a teaching assistant would go over the work with you explaining proper referencing, how to summarise someone else's ideas with reference to them to further your own argument etc. Reporting you is not the first step. I've even seen cases where a student has blatantly passed in a paper that wasn't theirs (in fact, the work was copied directly from a journal article) and the student received a 0 on the assignment, and the professor while not kind about it, certainly made sure the student knew that one step out of line in future and he'd be toast.

Third, can you tell me what the penalities have been? I can't think of any reason why your school wouldn't have an appeal process. If they are minor it may not be in your best interest to bother fighting it. Depending on the severity of the issue and it's impact on your academic career, you may wish to take the time and effort and appeal.

In any event, as long as you don't have a history of these sorts of problems, or it wasn't something major such as claiming another researcher's work as your own for credit in a graduate program, then this will not stay with you.

One more thing, you really should have a clear understanding with your professor, especially considering you may have another class with them in the future. You certainly don't want them to carry a prejudice against you nor do you want that professor's opinion of you to sway those of other teachers.

Graduate program? Then this is going to be with you in some form, it is however fixable. You still need to talk with the professor and the other student. What were you accused of? and did the prof bring it to you before reporting you? Did you attempt to fix/clarify the issue with the professor? You also however, MUST TALK TO YOUR ADVISOR, they can help you! Determine the severity of the event and figure out where you can go from there. You might also want to find out if there are any student advocates associated with the judicial service, they may be able to give you further advice.

Answer 2

You need to get in touch with the Student Judicial Service and ask just what your prof complained about. You do need to address this, to insure that this does not go on your permanent record. Have you talked to your parents? You should do so. I really do not see how the prof could complain about one student and not the other, could he be under the impression that you cheated. Or copied the project from the other student.
the one thing that you do not want to do is let this ride, hoping it will go away. It will not. Resolve it now.

Answer 3

The report will never hurt your carrer, unless the report has to do with your ability to do the work. For the most part, college activities which are not part of your transcript will never be seen by potential employers. The only way to know this for sure is to ask the records office if such things are placed on transcripts.

Answer 4

The biggest problem to any career you might have is your English and spelling skills. Should it be that English is a second language for you, then you need to spend more time on that if you plan a career where English is spoken, written, and read. I do not wish to insult you. I am only giving you the plain, harsh truth. Nobody in your career field will care what the inner workings of your schooling career were. They will care if you are representing them and have no command of the language.

Answer 5

You need to clarify things with your professor and show him your notes and any other relevant material. Do you have a student representative for these matters? You may want to contact them. Good Luck!

Answer 6

I would talk to the student jucicial service. Ask them to trash the report. Did your classmate get reported also? He should have been if you were.