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.
