Article 3:
Categories of Academic Dishonesty

3.01 Application of the Academic Honesty Policy.
This policy applies only to those acts of dishonesty performed while the student is enrolled in the university.

3.02 Academic Dishonesty Prohibited.
"Academic dishonesty" means employing a method or technique or engaging in conduct in an academic endeavor that the student knows or should know is not permitted by the university or a course instructor to fulfill academic requirements. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1. Stealing, as theft of tests or grade books, from faculty offices or elsewhere; this includes the removal of items posted for use by the students.
    
2. Using "crib notes," as unauthorized use of notes or the like to aid in answering questions during an examination;
    
3. Securing another to take a test in the student's place; both the student taking the test for another and the student registered in the course are at fault;
    
4. Representing as one's own work the work of another without acknowledging the source (plagiarism). This would include submitting substantially identical laboratory reports or other materials in fulfillment of an assignment by two or more individuals, whether or not these used common data or other information, unless this has been specifically permitted by the instructor.
    
5. Changing answers or grades on a test that has been returned to a student in an attempt to claim instructor error;
    
6. Giving or receiving unauthorized aid during an examination, such as trading examinations, whispering answers, and passing notes, and using electronic devices to transmit or receive information.
    
7. Openly cheating in an examination, as copying from another's paper;
    
8. Using another's laboratory results as one's own, whether with or without the permission of the owner;
    
9. Falsifying results in laboratory experiments;
    
10. Mutilating or stealing library materials; misshelving materials with the intent to reduce accessibility to other students;
     
11. A student's failing to report to the instructor or department chair an incident which the student believes to be a violation of the academic honesty policy; and
     
12. Misrepresenting academic records or achievements as they pertain to course prerequisites or corequisites for the purpose of enrolling or remaining in a course for which one is not eligible.
     
13. Possessing wireless electronic devices capable of transmitting and/or receiving wireless signals in an exam room unless expressly permitted by the instructor. Students seen with such devices will be charged with academic dishonesty.
     
14. Any other conduct which a reasonable person in the same or similar circumstances would recognize as dishonest or improper in an academic setting.
     

 

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