Prohibited Academic Behavior & Examples of Academic Misconduct

Using or attempting to use materials, or giving assistance or materials without Authorization to another in any academic exercise that could result in gaining or helping another to gain academic advantage.

Cheating includes, but is not limited to the following actions:

1. Copying – copying from another’s assignment, examination, or other academic exercise;
2. Use of Unauthorized Materials – using materials or equipment in connection with an assignment, examination, or other academic exercise which have not been authorized by the faculty member, including but not limited to, notes, calculator, websites, Artificial Intelligence and/or other technology;
3. Misrepresentation – permitting another to substitute for one’s self in an academic exercise, or submitting of an academic exercise that has been prepared by another;
4. Unauthorized Collaboration – communicating about and/or sharing the work or effort in an academic exercise with another individual or individuals without Authorization.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Copying all or part of another person’s work and submitting it as your own.
• Using artificial intelligence tools or other technologies in a manner that is not permitted by the instructor or course policies.
• Working with others on an assignment, project, or academic exercise when collaboration has not been authorized.
• Using information, answers, or materials from another student without permission.
• Sharing test questions, answers, or information about an assessment with others before or during the assessment period.
• Using another person’s account, device, or credentials to complete or submit academic work.
• Receiving unauthorized assistance during a quiz, test, examination, assignment, or other academic exercise.
• Allowing another person to copy your work or providing unauthorized assistance.
• Using notes, resources, websites, devices, or other materials that have not been authorized by the instructor.
• Having another person complete academic work on your behalf or representing another person’s work as your own.
• Completing an assessment or academic exercise for another student.
• Working together on graded coursework when individual work is required.
• Sharing completed assignments, answers, or academic work in a way that provides an unauthorized advantage to others.
• Providing or obtaining unauthorized assistance on any graded academic exercise.

Providing fabricated information, including inventing or counterfeiting information, in any form in an academic exercise.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Inventing data or research results.
• Counterfeiting information or procedures.
• Creating false records of internship or practicum experiences.
• Reporting research that was never conducted.
• Making up information, sources, or citations for an assignment.
• Creating false examples, observations, survey responses, or interview results.

Failing to comply with a specific instruction related to a condition of protecting academic integrity that has been clearly communicated in a particular course, syllabus, test, assessment, assignment, or other academic exercise.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Taking an exam outside of the designated testing environment without permission.
• Failing to perform a required environmental scan before an exam.
• Failing to remove unauthorized devices before testing.
• Ignoring instructions to keep a webcam, microphone, or screen-sharing tool active during a monitored assessment.
• Leaving a testing environment without permission when course or testing rules prohibit doing so.

Altering without Authorization any data or information, regardless of communication method (e.g., e-mail or other electronic communication), in an academic exercise.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Altering data values to achieve desired results.
• Changing experimental procedures or outcomes.
• Providing false citations.
• Altering academic records.
• Altering a returned examination or test paper and seeking regrading.

Sharing, distributing, altering, acquiring, damaging, or making inaccessible academic materials without Authorization, that could result in gaining or helping another to gain an academic advantage.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Downloading course materials, quiz / assignment / test solutions, etc. from websites like Chegg, Course Hero, GitHub, etc. without authorization.
• Uploading one’s quiz / assignment / test solution to websites like Chegg, Course Hero, etc. without authorization.
• Stealing or destroying library or reference materials needed for common academic exercises.
• Hiding resource materials so others may not use them.
• Destroying computer programs or files needed in academic work.
• Stealing or intentionally destroying another student’s notes or laboratory experiments.
• Receiving assistance in locating or using sources of information in an assignment where such assistance has been forbidden by the instructor.

Submitting academic work or substantial portions of the same academic work (including oral reports) in more than one academic exercise or publication without Authorization.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Submitting the same paper for credit in two courses without instructor permission.
• Resubmitting a previous project as new work.
• Making minor revisions in a credited paper or report (including oral presentations) and submitting it again as if it were new work.

Presenting the words or ideas of another as one’s own words or ideas, including failing to properly acknowledge a source, unless the ideas or information are common knowledge.

Types of plagiarism include:

1. Verbatim Plagiarism – Copying word-for-word a section of someone else’s work, without attribution and without quotation marks.
2. Inadequate/Uncited Paraphrasing – Failure to cite the rewording of another person’s original text, and/or presenting another person’s concepts or ideas as one’s own without proper attribution. This can include, but is not limited to, changing only a few words or altering the sentence structure from the original source and/or using Artificial Intelligence without citation.
3. Failing to properly acknowledge a source – Giving incorrect and/or not including information about a source in accordance with the citation style. This may include, but is not limited to, missing in-text citations, missing or omitted sources, and/or using text generated by Artificial Intelligence without attribution.
4. Self-plagiarism – The use of one’s own previous work in another context without indicating that it was used previously.
5. Mosaic Plagiarism – Patchwriting, and/or reusing a mix of words, phrases, and ideas from one or more source(s) (a) without indicating which words and ideas have been borrowed, and/o000r (b) without properly citing the source(s).

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Copying text from a website, book, article, or another student’s work and submitting it without quotation marks or citation.
• Rewording a source by changing only a few words or sentence structure without citing the original source.
• Using ideas, arguments, or concepts from a source without providing proper attribution.
• Including information from a source in an assignment but failing to provide the required in-text citation or reference.
• Using content generated by Artificial Intelligence and presenting it as your own work without attribution when attribution is required.
• Using an incorrect, incomplete, or fabricated citation that prevents readers from locating the original source.
• Submitting all or part of an assignment that was previously submitted for another course without instructor permission or acknowledgment.
• Reusing substantial portions of a previously completed paper, presentation, discussion post, or project without indicating that the work was submitted previously.
• Combining phrases, sentences, or ideas from one or more sources into an assignment without clearly identifying and citing the borrowed material.
• Mixing copied language from multiple sources with your own writing in a way that makes the work appear entirely original.
• Submitting work created by another person, a tutoring service, or an online source as your own work.
• Using another student’s work, with or without their permission, and presenting it as your own.