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Section III: General University and Housing Policies Regarding Misconduct
Academic Misconduct
The university may discipline a student for academic misconduct, which is defined as any activity that tends to undermine the academic integrity of the institution. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:
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- Cheating
A student may not use unauthorized assistance, materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise, neither should they give assistance, materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise.
a) A student must not use or give external assistance on any “in-class” or “take-home” examination, unless the instructor has specifically authorized external assistance. This prohibition includes, but is not limited to, the use of tutors, books, notes, and calculators.
b)
A student must not use another person as a substitute in the taking of an examination or quiz.
c)
A student must not steal examinations or other course materials.
d)
A student must not allow others, offer to conduct research, or to prepare work for him/her without advance authorization from the instructor for whom the work is being submitted. Under this prohibition, a student must not make any unauthorized use of materials obtained from commercial term paper companies or from files of papers prepared by other persons.
e)
A student must not collaborate with other persons on a particular project and submit a copy of a written report, which is represented explicitly or implicitly as the student’s individual work.
f)
A student must not use or give any unauthorized assistance in a laboratory, at a computer terminal, or on fieldwork.
g)
A student must not submit substantial portions of the same academic work for credit or honors more than once without permission of the instructor to whom the work is being submitted.
h)
A student must not alter a grade or score in any way.
- Fabrication
A student must not falsify or invent any information or data in an academic exercise including, but not limited to, records or reports, laboratory results, and citations of the sources of information.
- Facilitating Academic Dishonesty
A student must not falsify or invent any information or data in an academic exercise including, but not limited to, records or reports, laboratory results, and citations of the sources of information.
A student is responsible for taking reasonable precautions to ensure his or her work is not accessed by or transferred to another individual wherein it may then be used to commit an act of academic misconduct.
- Interference
a) A student must not steal, change, destroy, or impede another student’s work. Impeding another student’s work includes, but is not limited to the theft, defacement, or mutilation of resources so as to deprive others of the information they contain.
b)
A student must not give or offer a bribe, promise favors, or make threats with the intention of affecting a grade or the evaluation of academic performance.
- Plagiarism
A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas, words, or statements of another person without appropriate acknowledgment. A student must give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge indebtedness whenever he or she does any of the following:
a)
Quotes another person’s actual words, either oral or written;
b)
Paraphrases another person’s words, either oral or written;
c)
Uses another person’s idea, opinion, or theory; or
d)
Borrows facts, statistics, or other illustrative material, unless the information is common knowledge.
- Violation of Course Rules
A student must not violate course rules as contained in a course syllabus which are rationally related to the content of the course or to the enhancement of the learning process in the course.
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