Academic Dishonesty *
Academic dishonesty will not be
tolerated. Any student who commits academic dishonesty will receive a grade of zero
for the assignment or test. A second instance of cheating will culminate in a student being given an F or failure for the
class. Instructors may also pursue disciplinary action in accordance with the Student Handbook. Academic dishonesty
includes the following actions, as well as other similar conduct aimed at making false representation with respect to the
student’s academic performance:
(1) cheating on an exam,
(2) collaborating with others
on work to be presented, if contrary to the stated rules of the course,
(3) submitting, if contrary
to the rules of the course, work previously submitted in another course,
(4) knowingly and intentionally
assisting another student in any of the above actions, including assistance in an arrangement whereby work, classroom performance,
examination, or other activity is submitted or performed by a person other than the student under whose name the work is submitted
or performed,
(5) plagiarism.
Plagiarism is the act of presenting ideas, words, or organization of a
source, published
or not, as if they were one’s own. All quoted material must be in
quotation
marks, and all paraphrases, quotations, significant ideas, and organization
must be acknowledged
by some form of documentation acceptable to the instructor
for the course.
Plagiarism
also includes the practice of employing or allowing another person to alter
or revise
the work that a student submits as the student’s own. Students may discuss
assignments
among themselves or with an instructor or tutor, but when the actual
material
is completed, it must be done by the student and the student alone. The use
of the term
“material” refers to work in any form including written, oral, and
electronic.
All academic
work, written o r otherwise, submitted by a student to an instructor or
other academic
supervisor is expected to be the result of the student’s own thought,
research,
or self expression.
In any case in which a student feels unsure about a question of plagiarism involving
the student’s
work, the student must consult the instructor before submitting the work.
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See the Student Handbook for specifics.