Students commit to reflect upon and uphold principles of honesty, fairness, respect, and accountability in all academic and non-academic endeavors, and to protect and promote integrity.

Types of Academic Dishonesty

Plagiarism. Plagiarism includes copying another’s work, stealing someone else’s original ideas, passing off the ideas or words of another as one’s own, using the production of another, including any form of artificial intelligence, without crediting the source, committing literary theft, or presenting as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. Plagiarism is the intentional or unintentional presenting of another’s words or ideas without clear and proper acknowledgement. Intentional plagiarism is an act of fraud. The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property and is protected by copyright laws. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection if they are recorded in some way, such as in a book or a computer file.

Plagiarism may include but is not limited to:
• Using the exact words, even short phrases, from a source without quotation marks or without proper citation
• Using the sentence structure of an author without proper citation
• Paraphrasing ideas or words obtained from a source without proper citation
• Summarizing ideas obtained from a source without proper citation
• Attributing material to a source other than the source from which the material was obtained
• Submitting work prepared by someone else, including work obtained by hire or from other students
• Helping other students to plagiarize by allowing them to copy or transmit answers
• Using an assignment for more than one class without the express permission of both instructors
• Citing a source in the text of a paper but not providing full documentation of the source in a bibliography or works cited page or documenting sources on a works cited page or bibliography but not providing source citation in the text of the paper
• Writing a group paper which each student turns in as his or her own work
• Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up most of the work, whether credit is given or not

Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided by citing sources. Acknowledging when material is borrowed, and providing the information necessary to find that source, is essential.

Cheating. Cheating may include but is not limited to:
• Using unauthorized notes, study aids, technology, or other devices during an examination or quiz
• Looking at another student’s work during the examination or quiz when collaboration is not allowed
• Trying to communicate with others to get help during an examination or quiz; preparing a written answer to an exam question prior to the examination period and submitting as an in- class essay
• Bringing an entire essay to an exam period when only an outline is allowed and pretending that the essay was written in class

Fabrication or Falsification. Fabrication or Falsification may include but is not limited to:
• The altering of information or inventing information, citation, or data
• Changing a graded work and then challenging the instructor’s evaluation
• Inventing a reference source or providing a false claim of how the information was gathered or collected
• Making a false citation of a source of information (e.g., listing an author, title, or page number as the source for the obtained information when material is from another source)
• Forging signatures or falsifying information on forms, petitions, letters of excuse or permission, grade reports, or any official university document

Multiple Submission
The submission of the same work or substantial portions of the same work in a course for credit more than once without the permission of both instructors.

Complicity
The allowing of another student to copy an assignment or an examination.

Abuse of Academic Materials
The destroying or stealing of materials so that they are inaccessible for others. The removal of materials from the library without checking them out or the refusal to return reserved materials.

Unauthorized Possession
The purchase or theft of exams or selling exams, failing to return exams to the instructor, photocopying exams.

Misrepresentation
The completion of any academic assignment for another person or allowing another to complete any assignment. For further information consult here and here.

Consequences for Academic Dishonesty

In all cases of Academic Dishonesty:
• The Vice President of Academic Affairs will be notified by the course instructor.
• An incident report will be placed in the student file.

Additionally, the Vice President of Academic Affairs, in consultation with the course instructor and, if necessary, the faculty senate will consider a minimum of two additional sanctions. These include but are not limited to the following:

• Failure of the assignment
• Completion of a plagiarism tutorial and pass a plagiarism quiz
• Resubmission of the plagiarized assignment for a grade of F
• Failure of the course with an option to retake the course and remove the failure from the transcript
• Failure of the course with no option to remove the failure from the transcript
• A written report from the student to the Vice President of Academic Affairs
• Suspension from the university for one or more semesters. The student must make an official request to the Vice President of Academic Affairs to return to the university.
• Lifetime expulsion from the university