Judicial Affairs

Section 203 from the Student Code of Conduct:

Sec. 203. Scholastic Dishonesty
A. The coordinator for Student Judicial Affairs or faculty may initiate disciplinary proceedings against any 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 advantage to he student, 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 the student;
9. substituting for another person, or permitting another person to substitute for one's self, to take a test;
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 resumés, 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, the altering of grades or other falsification of academic records such as applications for admission, the award of a degree, grade reports, test papers, registration materials and reporting forms used by the Office of the Registrar.

 

 


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