Students are expected to abide by ethical standards
in preparing
and presenting material which demonstrates their level of
knowledge and which is used to determine grades. Such standards
are founded on basic concepts of integrity and honesty.
These include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
1. Students shall not plagiarize, which
is defined as
A. stealing or passing off as one’s
own the ideas or words of
another, or
B. using a creative production without crediting the source.
The following cases constitute plagiarism:
paraphrasing
published material without acknowledging
the source,
making significant use of an idea or a particular
arrangement of ideas, e.g., outlines,
writing a paper after consultation with persons who
provide suitable ideas and incorporating these ideas
into the paper without acknowledgment, or
submitting under one’s own name term papers or
other reports which have been prepared by others.
2. Students shall not cheat, which is defined as
A. using notes, aids, or the help of other students on tests or
exams in ways other than those expressly permitted by
the instructor, or
B. misreporting or altering the data in laboratory or research
projects involving the collection of data.
3. Students shall not furnish materials or information in order
to
enable another student to plagiarize or cheat.
Instructors may deal with academic dishonesty in one or more
of the following ways:
Assign an appropriate academic penalty
such as an oral
reprimand or point reduction.
Assign an “F” on all or part of a particular paper,
project, or
exam.
Report to the appropriate administrators, with notification
of
same to the student(s), for disciplinary action by the College. Such
a report will be accompanied by supporting evidence
and documentation.
