Home Policies and Procedures Student Academic Behavior Academic Behavior Standards FGCU is committed to a policy of honesty in academic affairs.
Academic action affects student assignments, examinations or grades.
Disciplinary action affects student enrollment status. The unauthorized possession or use of examination or course related material shall also constitute cheating. Plagiarism whereby another's work is deliberately used or appropriated without any indication of the source, thereby attempting to convey the impression that such work is the student's own. Any student failing to properly credit ideas or materials taken from another has plagiarized. A student who has assisted another in any of the aforementioned breach of standards shall be considered equally culpable.