What is Academic Misconduct
- Cheating or seeking to gain an improper advantage by utilizing unauthorized materials on quizzes, tests, examinations, papers and/or other assignments.
- Collusion or improper collaboration (unauthorized by the instructor).
- Deception and misrepresentation of your work, your academic records or credentials.
- Destruction of property, electronic dishonesty, hacking, etc.
- Fabrication of sources, forgery or alteration of documents.
- Facilitating academic misconduct by others (aiding and abetting).
- Falsifying data from a lab report, research, clinicals or an experiment.
- Intimidation and interference with integrity processes.
- Misrepresenting research findings.
- Professional misconduct.
- Sabotaging the work of others.
- Submitting the same assignment for different classes (multiple submission).
- Plagiarism
- The duplication of an author's words without quotation marks and accurate references or footnotes.
- The duplication of an author's words or phrases with footnotes or accurate references but without quotation marks.
- The use of an author's ideas in paraphrase without accurate references or footnotes.
- Submitting a paper in which exact words are merely rearranged even though they are the same is misrepresentation. Misrepresentation is the submission of materials for evaluation that are not the student's own.