Academic Misconduct
The policy regarding dishonest work is detailed in the Academic Misconduct Code. The code describes academic misconduct as including but not limited to the following:
This Code applies to students, former students, and graduates.
Academic Misconduct includes any act which improperly affects the evaluation of a
student's academic performance or achievement, including but not limited to the
following:
- Cheating: the use of unauthorized materials, methods, or information in any academic exercise, including improper collaboration;
- Plagiarism: the representation of the words or ideas of another as one's own, including:
- direct quotation without both attribution and indication that the material is being directly quoted; e.g., quotation marks;
- paraphrase without attribution;
- paraphrase with or without attribution where wording of the original remains substantially intact and is represented as the author's own;
- expression in one's own words, but without attribution, of ideas, arguments, lines of reasoning, facts, processes, or other products of the intellect where such material is learned from the work of another and is not part of the general fund of common academic knowledge;
- Fabrication: the falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise;
- Fraud: the falsification, forgery, or misrepresentation of academic or clinic work, including the resubmission of work performed for one class for credit in another class without the informed permission of the second instructor; or the falsification, forgery, or misrepresentation of other academic or medical records or documents, including admissions materials, transcripts, and patient records; or the communication of false or misleading statements to obtain academic advantage or to avoid academic penalty;
- Destruction, misappropriation, or unauthorized possession of University property or the property of another;
- Bribery or intimidation;
- Assisting others in any act proscribed by this Code; or
- Attempting to engage in such acts.
The code provides that the student's dean shall be notified of the charge and
the dean shall notify the student. Notification of the dean shall be in writing
with a description of the evidence and shall be made within ten University business days after discovery of
the incident, exclusive of University breaks or academic intercessions. Possible
disciplinary actions, provision for a conference with the Vice Provost for
Educational Services, request for a hearing and appeals are among the matters
outlined in the code.
A complete copy of the Academic
Misconduct Code is available on-line or in the Office of the
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.
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