TAMIU Student Handbook 2021-2022

Page 38 of 91 defined as a firearm, illegal knife, club, or prohibited weapon as defined in SystemRegulation 34.06.02 Weapons. This prohibition excludes a concealed handgun carried by a license holder in accordance with state and federal law and TAMIU Rule 34.06.02.L1 Carrying Concealed Handguns on Campus. ** ARTICLE 7. ACADEMIC CONDUCT As members in an academic community, students at TAMIU are expected to act with honesty and integrity in their pursuit of higher education, be mature, be self-directed and be able to manage their own affairs. Students who are unwilling to abide by these basic expectations may find themselves facing academic and disciplinary sanctions. Students are expected to share in the responsibility and authority with faculty and staff to challenge and make known acts that violate the TAMIU Ho nor Code. For more information on the Honor Code, please visit the Office of Studen t Conduct and Community Engagement website at https://www.tamiu.edu/scce/ . TAMIU Faculty have the author ity to implement academic rules or impose grade penalties as appropriate. For more information, please visit the TAMIU Faculty Handbook . Section 7.01 Violations of Academic Conduct Academic violation is any act, or attempt, which gives an unfair advantage to the student. Academic violation includes, but is not limited to: 1. 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: a. Failing to credit sources used in a work product in an attempt to present the work as one’s own. b. Intentionally, knowingly, or carelessly presenting the work of another as one’s own (i.e., without crediting the author or creator). c. Copying test answers or the words or phrases of another without crediting the author or claim credit for the ideas of another. d. 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. e. Submitting in the same paper in more than one class without the permission of the instructor.