Violations of the regulations subject a student to appropriate disciplinary action.

- y. Academic Dishonesty

Academic Dishonesty is defined as an act of deception in which a student seeks to claim credit for the work or effort of another person, or uses unauthorized materials or fabricated information in any academic work or research, either through the Student's own efforts or the efforts of another. It includes:

- • - use or attempted use of unauthorized materials, information or study • - use or attempted use of unauthorized materials, information or study aids, or an act of deceit by which a Student attempts to misrepresent mastery of academic effort or information. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized copying or collaboration on a test or assignment, using prohibited materials and texts, any misuse of an electronic device, or using any deceptive means to gain academic credit.
- • - falsification or invention of any information including but not limited • - falsification or invention of any information including but not limited to falsifying research, inventing or exaggerating data, or listing incorrect or fictitious references.
- • - helping another commit an act of academic dishonesty. This includes but • - helping another commit an act of academic dishonesty. This includes but is not limited to paying or bribing someone to acquire a test or assignment, changing someone's grades or academic records, taking a test/doing an assignment for someone else by any means, including misuse of an electronic device. It is a violation of Oregon state law to create and offer to sell part or all of an educational assignment to another person (ORS 165.114).
- • - altering or interfering with evaluation instruments or documents • - altering or interfering with evaluation instruments or documents
- • - representing the words or ideas of another person or presenting • - representing the words or ideas of another person or presenting someone else's words, ideas, artistry or data as one's own, or using one's own previously submitted work. Plagiarism includes but is not limited to copying another person's work (including unpublished material) without appropriate referencing, presenting someone else's opinions and theories as one's own, or working jointly on a project and then submitting it as one's own.

Academic Dishonesty cases are handled initially by the academic units, following the process outlined in the University's Academic Dishonesty Report Form, and will also be referred to SCCS for action under these rules.

- z. Office of Equal Opportunity and Access

The OSU Office of Equal Opportunity and Access defines sexual harassment as the following:

- • sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical • sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:
- • to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of • to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of an individual's employment or education;
- • to or reject of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for • to or reject of such conduct by an individual is used as the basis for employment of education - related decisions affecting such an individual; or