Academic Honesty Policy
The following guidelines have been prepared so that you will understand what is expected of you in maintaining academic honesty.
1. Academic dishonesty is normally dealt with as an academic action by the instructor, reflected in the student’s grade in the particular course rather than through college disciplinary procedures.
2. No specific departmental, divisional or institutional procedures are established for academic dishonesty other than the normal process for review and appeal of an instructor’s grading procedures.
3. Other disciplinary procedures (e.g., dismissal, suspension, etc.) will be used only if the student disrupts the class or is otherwise abusive or threatening or violates any other college policy.
4. Academic dishonesty is defined as the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for work by the use of any dishonest, deceptive or fraudulent means. Examples of academic dishonesty would include but not be limited to the following:
a. Copying either in part or in whole, from another’s test or examination;
b. Discussion of answers or ideas relating to the answers on an examination or test when such discussion is prohibited by the instructor;
c. Obtaining copies of an exam without the permission of the instructor;
d. Using notes, “cheat sheets,” or otherwise utilizing information or devices not considered appropriate under the prescribed test conditions;
e. Altering a grade or interfering with the grading procedures in any course;
f. Allowing someone other than the officially enrolled student to represent the same;
g. Plagiarism, which is defined as the act of taking the ideas, words or specific substantive material of another and offering them as one’s own without giving credit to the source.
Options may be taken by the faculty member to the extent that the faculty member considers the cheating or plagiarism to manifest the student’s lack of academic performance in the course. One or more of the following actions are available to the faculty member who suspects a student has been cheating or plagiarizing:
8. Review – no action.
9. An oral reprimand with emphasis on counseling toward prevention of further occurrences.
10. A requirement that work be repeated.
11. A reduction of the grade earned on the specific work in question, including the possibility of no credit for the work.
12. A reduction of the course grade as a result of item 4 above, including the possibility of a failing grade for the course.
13. Referral to the office of the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for further administrative action, such as suspension or expulsion