Academic Misconduct
Academic misconduct includes the alteration of grades, involvement in the acquisition or distribution of tests, the unauthorized submission of student work in more than one class, unauthorized collaboration and other activities not otherwise identified previously. The fact that a student is charged under an academic misconduct violation does not preclude the student from being charged in another manner. This is especially true when the academic misconduct involves damage to or loss of University property.
Examples of academic misconduct include but are not limited to:
- Violating the copyright laws by reproducing copyrighted material rather than acquiring the material from an authorized source. This would include the unlawful copying of hardcopy materials and digital materials such as e-books and e-chapters.
- Substituting for another student or permitting any other person to substitute for oneself to take a test or examination.
- Writing a paper or other assignment for another student either for free or for payment.
- Harassing another student for reporting or for cooperating with the investigation of an academic integrity violation or an academic misconduct violation.
- Altering test answers and then claiming instructor inappropriately graded the examination.
- Submitting written work to fulfill the requirements of more than one course without the explicit permission of both instructors. This includes work first produced in connection with classes at other institutions attended by the student.
- Contributing to uploading a faculty member’s tests, assignments, notes, lecture slides, projects, solutions, old lab data or other material to websites where this material can be accessed by other students without the express permission of the faculty member.
- Stealing, buying, selling, giving away or otherwise obtaining without authorization all or part of any unadministered test/examination or entering any university office or building for the purpose of obtaining an unadministered test/examination.
- Coercing any other person to obtain a test or examination.
- Misrepresenting oneself or providing misleading and false information in an attempt to access another user’s computer account.
- Changing, altering, falsifying or being accessory to the changing, altering or falsifying of a grade report or form, or entering any university office, building or accessing a computer for that purpose.
- Depriving others of equal access to library materials by stealing, damaging, destroying, sequestering, misfiling or removing pages from printed material available from the library.
- Depriving others of equal access to shared electronic media used for academic purposes by damaging, sabotaging, reprogramming or intentionally introducing computer infectors (worms, viruses, etc.) into computers, software and databases.
- Attempting to retake a course under the forgiveness policy when the cause for the low course grade resulted from a sanction for an academic integrity or academic misconduct violation.