Advising Help Desk – Student Conduct
Student Conduct
Are instructors required to report all dishonest acts to the Center for Student Conduct?
Instructors have several options for resolving dishonest acts. They do not have to report all dishonest acts to the Center for Student Conduct. However, to discourage repeat or multiple offenses, the Center encourages instructors to notify them of all cases they resolve. In this way they can serve as a central repository for all cases of academic dishonesty. Complete details are available on-line in the Reporting Misconduct section.
Student Conduct
What else should I know about academic dishonesty?
See the Student Guide to Academic Integrity. Some departments link this guide to their web pages.
The Center for Student Conduct has an informative list of questions typically asked by students who get referred to their office.
Student Conduct
What is cheating?
Cheating is defined as fraud, deceit, or dishonesty in an academic assignment, or using or attempting to use materials, or assisting others in using materials, that are prohibited or inappropriate in the context of the academic assignment in question. This includes but is not limited to:
- Providing answers to or receiving answers from others;
- Using notes, information, calculators, or other electronic devices or programs during exams or for assignments from which they have been prohibited, expressly or implicitly;
- Improperly obtaining or using advance knowledge of an exam or assignment;
- Putting one's name on another student's exam or assignment;
- Altering previously graded work for submission in a grade appeal.
Student Conduct
What is plagiarism?
All written work submitted for a course, except for acknowledged quotations, must be expressed in the student's own words. It must also be constructed upon a plan of the student's own devising. Work copied without acknowledgment from a book, from another student's paper, from the internet, or from any other source is plagiarized. Plagiarism can range from wholesale copying of passages from another's work to using the views, opinions, and insights of another without acknowledgment, to paraphrasing another person's original phrases without acknowledgment.
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