2.4.1 : Academic Dishonesty

The intentional misrepresentation of all or part of one’s work to deceive for personal gain or assisting another to do the same. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, and/or submission of work that was developed in all or in part as a response to the assignment of another professor in all or in part. Students are responsible for becoming familiar with acceptable standards for research and documentation and to abide by them. Each faculty member is required to send a record together with all evidence of suspected cases of academic dishonesty to the Chief Academic Officer of the school and to notify the Community Life Office. Copies of all records, meeting minutes, and response documentation will be sent by the Chief Academic Officer to the Office to Community Life to be placed in the student file. In any case of academic dishonesty, a student’s disagreement over a professor’s handling of the incident will be regarded as an academic complaint and handled in accordance with the procedures for academic complaints set forth in the University catalog. Further information can be found in the University catalog.