Academic Integrity Policy
Washington Technology University demands honesty of all students in their academic work. Honesty is integral to the atmosphere of genuine inquiry and intellectual curiosity that the University seeks to foster.
Academic dishonesty not only contradicts the expectations of the faculty and student body, but also undermines students’ pursuit of knowledge and violates the University’s rule and regulations.
Several forms of academic dishonesty carry severe penalties:
- 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.
Violations of the policy of academic honesty may result in a student being assigned a zero grade on an examination, assignment, research paper or other exercise, a failing grade for the course, suspension, or dismissal from the program. In the case of fraudulent actions and/or misusing computer information resources, the offender may be dismissed from the University. A committee of three faculty members will hear cases involving academic honesty depending on the circumstances.