ACADEMIC DISHONESTY

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic honesty. A violation of academic honesty is a violation of the College’s standards for student conduct and shall result in disciplinary action.

Cross Reference: Policy 5420D
Adopted: December 31, 1968
Adopted: June 26, 1986
Revised: June 24, 1999
Revised: August 11, 2016

Procedure 6220D

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY

Students found engaging in academic dishonesty shall be disciplined. Consequences may include failing an assignment or dismissal from a class, program, or the College. Students retain the right of due process and, therefore, may appeal the decision through the Student Rights: Due Process Policy 5430B.

All cases of academic dishonesty are initially handled at the discretion of the instructor. If an instructor determines that a student has engaged in academic dishonesty, the instructor can determine an appropriate consequence. These consequences may include:

• Giving the student a grade of “F” for the assignment in question,
• Giving the student a final grade of “F” for that course and dismissing the student from the course.

A student may also be dismissed from a program. This consequence is limited to programs, such as the health sciences, where students deal with the safety and well-being of patients and that have specific rules and procedures related to dismissal included in the program’s student handbook. If the program’s student handbook allows dismissal from a program for engaging in academic dishonesty, a student may be dismissed.

Students who have engaged in academic dishonesty more than once may be expelled from the College. Faculty are strongly encouraged to report instances of academic dishonesty through the reporting form on the College’s website.

Academic Dishonesty includes but is not necessarily limited to:

Cheating

• Submission of work that is not the student’s own for papers, assignments or exams.
• Submission of falsified data.
• Theft of, or unauthorized access to, an exam.
• Use of an alternate, stand-in or proxy during an exam.
• Use of, or supplying, material or technology including textbooks, notes, computer programs, calculators, computers, or cell phones in the preparation of an assignment or during an exam, in direct conflict with an assignment.
• Unauthorized collaboration in preparation of an assignment. Each student is responsible for understanding the policies of the instructor offering any course regarding the amount of help and collaboration permitted or required in preparation of assignments.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is knowingly representing the words or ideas of another, published or unpublished, as one’s own in any academic exercise or activity. It is the failure to properly denote the original material with quotation marks and/or include the appropriate citation if any of the following are reproduced in the work submitted by a student:

• A phrase, written or musical,
• A graphic element,
• A proof,
• Specific language,
• An idea derived from the work, published or unpublished, of another person.

Cross Reference: Policy 5430C
Adopted: December 31, 1968
Adopted: June 26, 1986
Revised: June 24, 1999
Revised: August 11, 2016
Reformatted: December 15, 2022