Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty includes the following and any other forms of academic dishonesty:

  • Cheating —Using or attempting to use crib sheets, electronic sources, stolen exams, unauthorized study aids in an academic assignment, or copying or colluding with a fellow student in an effort to improve one's grade.
  • Fabrication —Falsifying, inventing, or misstating any data, information, or citation in an academic assignment, field experience, academic credentials, job application, or placement file.
  • Plagiarism —Using the works (i.e. words, images, other materials) of another person as one's own words without proper citation in any academic assignment. This includes submission (in whole or in part) of any work purchased or downloaded from a website or an Internet paper clearinghouse.
  • Facilitating Academic Dishonesty —Assisting or attempting to assist any person to commit any act of academic misconduct, such as allowing someone to copy a paper or test answers.