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UNIVERSITY POLICIES
Academic Integrity
Academic freedom is the cornerstone to a university education. It allows students to examine, learn, and synthesize various topics. Freedom is predicated on integrity, trust, and honesty. All undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff are expected to show integrity in their academic work, including discussion, written submissions, examinations, and laboratory work. Failure to conduct academic work honestly is a serious breach in trust and is considered a serious offense.
ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT
Examples of academic misconduct include, but are not limited to, the following:
A. Cheating: The unauthorized use of materials, devices, or information on an academic exercise.
Examples of cheating include submitting another’s work as one’s own, using unauthorized notes or electronic devices during an examination, changing or altering a score in any way, stealing an examination or answer key, or allowing another person to complete one’s assignment.
B. Fabrication and Falsification: The inaccurate presentation of data in an academic exercise.
Examples of fabrication and falsification include creating false data for a laboratory exercise or falsifying citations of sources used.
C. Facilitation and Collaboration: The unauthorized aiding of another student in her/his academic exercises or allowing another student to violate academic integrity.
Examples of facilitation and collaboration include knowingly allowing another student to cheat, completing another student’s academic work, or conducting group work when not allowed by a professor.
D. Interference: Any act that prevents other students from completing their academic work or prevents their work from being evaluated fairly.
Examples of interference include defacing library or university material in a way that prevents others from using it, defacing another’s work, offering bribes or threats to influence grading of academic work, or intentionally disrupting the academic process.
E. Plagiarism: The use of the words, ideas, and data of others without giving credit to that person.
Examples include failing to provide proper citations for ideas, facts, opinions, theories, or statistics, or presenting these as one’s own, or submitting work previously submitted to another course when not allowed by professor.