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Chapter 3 General Academic Regulations Chapter 3 General Academic Regulations

SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY

The integrity of a university degree depends on the integrity of the work done for that degree by each student. The University expects a student to maintain a high standard of individual honor in all scholastic work (Rules and Regulations of the Board of Regents, Chapter VI, 3.(17)).

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If a student is accused of academic dishonesty, the faculty member may initiate disciplinary proceedings through the Department Chair, the Dean of the college, and the Student Judicial Affairs Coordinator.

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(a) The dean or a faculty member may initiate disciplinary proceedings under Section 203 and 303, Student Code of Conduct, against a student accused of scholastic dishonesty.
(b) "Scholastic dishonesty" includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, collusion, falsifying academic records, and any act designed to give unfair academic advantage to the student (such as, but not limited to, submission of essentially the same written assignment for two courses without the prior permission of the instructor, providing false or misleading information in an effort to receive a postponement or an extension on a test, quiz, or other assignment), or the attempt to commit such an act.
(c) "Cheating" includes, but is not limited to

(1) copying from another student’s test paper;
(2) using during a test materials not authorized by the person giving the test;
(3) failing to comply with instructions given by the person administering the test;
(4) possession during a test of materials which are not authorized by the person giving the test, such as class notes or specifically designed "crib notes." The presence of textbooks constitutes a violation only if they have been specifically prohibited by the person administering the test;
(5) using, buying, stealing, transporting, or soliciting in whole or part the contents of an unadministered test, test key, homework solution, or computer program;
(6) collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test or other assignment without authority;
(7) discussing the contents of an examination with another student who will take the examination;
(8) divulging the contents of an examination, for the purpose of preserving questions for use by another, when the instructor has designated that the examination is not to be removed from the examination room or not to be returned to or kept by the student;
(9) substituting for another person, or permitting another person to substitute for oneself to take a course, a test, or any course-related assignment;
(10) paying or offering money or other valuable thing to, or coercing another person to obtain an unadministered test, test key, homework solution, or computer program, or information about an unadministered test, test key, homework solution, or computer program;
(11) falsifying research data, laboratory reports, and/or other academic work offered for credit;
(12) taking, keeping, misplacing, or damaging the property of the University, or of another, if the student knows or reasonably should know that an unfair academic advantage would be gained by such conduct; and
(13) misrepresenting facts, including providing false grades or résumés, for the purpose of obtaining an academic or financial benefit or injuring another student academically or financially.

(d) "Plagiarism" includes, but is not limited to, the appropriation, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the submission of it as one’s own academic work offered for credit.
(e) "Collusion" includes, but is not limited to, the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing academic assignments offered for credit or collaboration with another person to commit a violation of any section of the rules on scholastic dishonesty.
(f) "Falsifying academic records" includes, but is not limited to, altering or assisting in the altering of any official record of the University or The University of Texas System, the submission of false information or the omission of requested information that is required for or related to any academic record of the University or The University of Texas System. Academic records include, but are not limited to, applications for admission, the awarding of a degree, grade reports, test papers, registration materials, grade change forms, and reporting forms used by the Office of the Registrar. A former student who engages in such conduct is subject to a bar against readmission, revocation of a degree, and withdrawal of a diploma.

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