Academic Integrity

Violations of Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is violated when one of the following events occurs:

I. Plagiarism

Plagiarism occurs when a writer appropriates another's ideas without proper acknowledgement of the source or uses another's words without indicating that fact through the use of quotation marks.

II. Cheating

Cheating is the use of unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in an academic exercise as well as collusion in visual or oral form.

III. Fabrication

Fabrication is the falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise. This includes lying to a member of the administration, faculty, Academic Integrity Committee (AIC).

IV. Facilitating Academic Dishonesty

The facilitation of academic dishonesty occurs when students knowingly or negligently aid others or allow their work to be used in a dishonest academic manner. Such students are as guilty of violating academic integrity as their recipients.