Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty is against College as well as System Community Standards. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to:

Plagiarism: Failure to properly acknowledge authorities quoted, cited, or consulted in the preparation of written work. Examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to:

1. Directly quoting, summarizing, or paraphrasing the work of others without specific indication of sources, or handing in work that is not the student’s own.
2. Copying and/or presenting the words of others as one’s own writing, including from Internet sources.
3. Copying words, even if you cite the sources, unless appropriate quotation is noted.
4. Expressing in your own words someone else’s ideas as your own.

Cheating: The deception about one’s own work or about the work of another. Examples of cheating include, but are not limited to:

1. Submitting another’s work as one’s own or allowing another to submit one’s work as though it were their own.
2. Several people completing an assignment that was not explicitly assigned as a group project and turning in multiple copies, all represented either implicitly or explicitly as individual work.
3. The use of a textbook or notes during an examination without the explicit permission of the instructor. This includes online and take-home exams.
4. Giving or receiving unauthorized help on assignments.
5. Stealing a problem solution from an instructor.
6. Tampering with experimental data to obtain ‘desired’ results or creating results for experiments not completed.
7. Tampering with or destroying the work of others.
8. Submitting substantial portions of the same academic work more than once without permission of the instructor.
9. Falsifying college records, forms, or other documents.
10. Falsifying clinical hours, supervised field experience hours, or student teaching hours.
11. Unauthorized access of computer systems or files.
12. Attempting to bribe an instructor or administrator.

A faculty member who suspects a student of academic dishonesty shall notify the student and offer the student an opportunity for an initial meeting to discuss the allegation and to present any relevant information. When possible, this initial meeting shall occur within seven (7) calendar days of discovery of the alleged violation. Proceedings in case discussions are informal and non-adversarial. The faculty member may make a verbal agreement on, or provide the student with a written or electronic notice, of, a scheduled meeting. The faculty member may request a witness to be present for this meeting. The purpose of this initial meeting is to review and discuss the charges before a decision is reached. The faculty member may use documentary evidence provided the student is allowed to respond to it at the meeting. At this initial meeting the following results may occur:

1. The allegations are dismissed;
2. The student accepts responsibility for the violation and accepts the academic sanction(s) proposed by the faculty member;
3. The student accepts responsibility for the violation but does not accept the sanction and requests a hearing;
4. The student does not accept responsibility for the violation and requests a hearing.
5. If the allegations are dropped or the student accepts responsibility for the violation and accepts the sanction(s), the case is closed.