Duplicate submission: Submitting the same paper in two or more different classes without permission of the instructors.
Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: Knowingly allowing another person to take work you have done and pass it off as his or her own.
Fabrication: Inventing or misrepresenting information. For example, listing sources in works cited you did not use in your paper or, in the Sciences, creating or altering data.
Impersonation: To represent oneself as someone else for the purpose of fraud. In an online or hybrid course, if someone other than the student completes assigned work on behalf of the student. This could also occur in a face-to-face or hybrid setting.
Collusion or unauthorized collaboration: When a student working on an assignment on which they should work alone enlists help from another student, students, or other persons to complete the assignment.
Any person committing an act of plagiarism, cheating, impersonation, unauthorized collaboration, or other form of academic dishonesty is subject to the fullest measure of consequences, up to and including course failure and suspension. Repeated violations will subject the student to automatic academic suspension with failing grades for not less than one academic year. Failing grades assigned because of academic dishonesty are not eligible for forgiveness or to appeal.
The University expects that students will conduct themselves with honesty and integrity.
Sanctions for Academic Offenses. One or more of the following sanctions may be applied to a student guilty of commission of an academic offense:
Assignment of any grade on a paper, examination, or other material related to the offense.
Assignment of any grade for the course in which the offense occurred.
Forced withdrawal from the class in which the offense occurred.
Suspension from the University for a specified period of time. Suspension includes exclusion from all classes, termination of student status and all related privileges and activities. A student who violates any of the terms of suspension shall be subject to further discipline in the form of permanent dismissal.
Dismissal from the University: After review and approval of the University President, this sanction is final.