Standards for Academic Integrity
Generally, academic fraud and dishonesty include, but are not
limited to the following categories: cheating, fabrication,
plagiarism, multiple submissions, obtaining unfair advantage,
aiding and abetting and unauthorized access to academic or
administrative systems.
· Cheating: Using
unauthorized notes, aids or information on an examination; altering
a graded work prior to its return to a faculty member, allowing
another person to do one’s own work and submitting
it for grading.
· Fabrication: Inventing or
falsifying information, data or citation; presenting data gathered
outside of acceptable professorial guidelines; failing to provide
an accurate account of how information, data or citations were
gathered; altering documents affecting academic records; forging
signatures or authorizing false information on an official academic
document, grade, letter, form, ID card or any other university
document.
· Plagiarism: Submitting
material that in part or whole is not one’s own work;
submitting one’s own work without properly attributing
the correct sources of its content.
· Multiple Submissions:
Submitting identical papers or course work for credit in more than
one course without prior permission of the instructor.
· Obtaining Unfair
Advantage: a) gaining or providing access to examination materials
prior to the time authorized by an instructor; b) stealing,
defacing or destroying library or research materials which can
deprive others of their use; c) unauthorized collaboration on an
academic assignment; d) retaining, possessing or circulating
previously used examination materials without the
instructor’s permission;
e) obstructing or interfering with another student’s
academic work; or f) engaging in any activity designed to obtain an
unfair advantage over another student in the same course.
· Aiding and Abetting:
Providing material, information or other assistance that violates
the above Standards for Academic Integrity; providing false
information in connection with any inquiry regarding academic
integrity.
· Unauthorized Access:
Viewing or altering in any way computer records, modifying computer
programs or systems, releasing or distributing information gathered
via unauthorized access or in any way interfering with the use or
availability of computer systems/information.
