Student Handbook

Academic violation is any act, or attempt, which gives an unfair advantage to the student. Academic violation includes, but is not limited to:

Bribery.   Providing, offering or taking rewards in exchange for a grade, an assignment or the aid of academic violation.

Cheating.  An act of deception in which a student misrepresents that the student has mastered information related to an academic exercise. Examples include, but are not limited to:

1. 1. Copying from another student’s test, lab report, computer file, data listing, logs, or any other type of report or academic exercise.
   2. Using unauthorized materials during a test.
   3. Consulting a cell phone, text messages, PDAs, programmable calculators with materials that give an advantage over other students during an exam.
   4. Using crib sheets or other hidden notes in an examination or looking at another student's test paper to copy strategies or answers.
   5. Having another person supply questions or answers from an examination to be given or in progress.
   6. Having a person other than oneself (registered for the class) attempt to take or take an examination or any other graded activity. In these cases, all consenting parties to the attempt to gain unfair advantage may be charged with an Honor Pledge violation.
   7. Deliberately falsifying laboratory results, or submission of samples or findings not legitimately derived in the situation and by the procedures prescribed or allowable.
   8. Revising and resubmitting a quiz or exam for regrading, without the instructor's knowledge and consent.
   9. Giving or receiving unauthorized aid on a take-home examination.
   10. Facilitating academic violation: intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to violate the Honor Pledge.
   11. Signing in another student's name on attendance sheets, rosters, Scantrons.
   12. Submitting in a paper, thesis, lab report, or other academic exercise falsified, invented, or fictitious data or evidence, or deliberate or knowingly concealing or distorting the true nature, origin, or function of such data or evidence.
   13. Procuring and/or altering without permission from appropriate authority of examinations, papers, lab reports, or other academic exercises, whether discarded or actually used, and either before or after such materials have been handed in to the appropriate recipient.
   14. Using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, soliciting, copying or possessing, the contents of an un-administered test, a required assignment or a past test which has, by the professor, not been allowed to be kept by their students.

Collusion.  The unauthorized collaboration with one or more persons with the intent of cheating. 

Contract Cheating.  The form of academic violation where students get academic work completed on their behalf, which they then submit for academic credit as if they had created it themselves. Examples include, but are not limited to:

1. Looking to internet sites for the exact question/problem/scenario given to them from their instructors.
2. Posting the exact (or substantially similar) question(s) online (or social media platforms) for someone to answer.
3. Copying the provided answer directly from the online source without spending time to understand it or check it for errors.
4. Attempting to hide their online activities from institutional authorities by not making their name visible or by logging into “help” sites in a way that cannot be tied to their educational institution ID.

Flagrant Academic Violation.  Repeated or severe violation(s) of the academic rule.  

Lying. Deliberate falsification with the intent to deceive as it applies to an academic submission.

Plagiarism.  The act of passing off some other person’s ideas, words, or works as one’s own. It includes, but is not limited to, the appropriating, buying, receiving as a “gift,” or obtaining, by any other means, another’s work for submission as one’s own academic work. Examples include, but are not limited to:

1. 1. Failing to credit sources used in a work product in an attempt to present the work as one’s own.
   2. Intentionally, knowingly, or carelessly presenting the work of another as one’s own (i.e., without crediting the author or creator or unauthorized use of AI).
   3. Copying test answers or the words or phrases of another without crediting the author or claim credit for the ideas of another.
   4. Borrowing or lending a term paper, handing in as your own work a paper purchased from an individual or off the Internet, or submitting, as one's own any papers or work product from the files of any group, club, or organization.
   5. Submitting the same paper in more than one class without the permission of the instructor.