Academic Honesty

You are expected to fulfill your academic responsibilities in an honest and forthright manner. Examples of prohibited behavior include but are not limited to:

• Plagiarizing another’s work (such as using another’s phrasing, concepts, or line of reasoning as your own without giving proper credit to the author or creator); submitting course assignments that are not your own.
• Submitting the same paper in different classes without prior approval from both instructors.
• Cheating (the use of any unauthorized means to gain academic advantage on assignments, laboratory reports, or examinations).
• Acquiring or using test materials without faculty knowledge.
• Accessing any information, resource, and/or means of communication during an exam or assignment without specific authorization from the professor.
• Failing to follow class policy.
• Obtaining academic benefits through computer fraud or unauthorized access; engaging in academic fraud alone or with others.
• Using material downloaded off the internet without proper citation; illicitly attempting to influence grading; and
• Failing to abide by test-taking procedures.

Go to SR 2610 Student Code of Conduct for more information.