ACADEMIC DISHONESTY

I have a zero tolerance policy towards academic dishonesty. Any sort of academic dishonesty will result in an immediate failed - 'E' - grade and a report submitted to the Student Conduct and Community Standards office.

The Student Conduct Code and Judicial Structure defines Academic dishonesty along the following lines:

Engaging in academic dishonesty in any form with respect to examinations, course assignments, research projects, grades, and/or academic records, including, but not limited to the following:

1. CHEATING

   Cheating is using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic assignment. Examples of cheating are:

   * Looking on someone else's paper.
   * Using any kind of "cheat" sheet or other enhancement during a test.
   * Allowing someone else to take an exam in your place.
   * Submitting the same work more than once for credit.
   * Using someone else's homework or lab assignments.
   * Collaborating with another student on any assignment or take-home test if told that collaboration was not allowed.
   * Assisting another student in committing an act of academic dishonesty by allowing the student to copy homework or an exam.
   * Taking an exam for someone else.
   * Giving test information to students in other sections of the same class.

2. FALSIFICATION

   Falsification is intentional and unauthorized misrepresentation or invention of any information or citation in an academic assignment. Examples of falsification are:

   * Making up data on an assignment.
   * Making up a source to cite in a paper.
   * Attempting to change, actually changing, altering grades or any other unauthorized tampering with grades.
   * Giving false information to a faculty or staff member to increase one's grade.
   * Altering then resubmitting returned academic work.

3. PLAGIARISM

   Plagiarism is deliberate and knowing use of someone else's work or ideas as one's own. For example, plagiarism can consist of:

   * Quoting a source verbatim, or paraphrasing text from a given source, without properly citing the source.
   * Turning in a research paper that was written by someone else.
   * Passing off someone else's work as one's own.
   * Failing to give credit for ideas or materials taken from someone else.