Acts of academic misconduct destroy that atmosphere, violate that trust, and are therefore subject to penalty. This section of the Student Conduct Code defines what acts of academic misconduct are and presents the procedure for imposing penalties for such acts. Acts of academic misconduct necessarily involve the Academic Deans, Department Heads and Faculty. Therefore, the procedures for investigating complaints and imposing penalties for academic misconduct differ somewhat from those applied to social misconduct. A fundamental concept of all educational institutions is academic honesty.
All academic work depends upon respect for and acknowledgment of research and ideas of others.
Misrepresentation of someone else's work as one's own is a most serious offense in any academic setting. No academic misconduct, including any forms of cheating and plagiarism, can be condoned. Also, one is not allowed to cooperate or be an accessory to another's academic misconduct. Thus a student who writes a paper or does an assignment for another student is an accomplice and must be held accountable just as severely as the other. It is perhaps less obvious, but it is equally logical, that a student who knowingly permits another to copy from his or her own paper, examination, or project should be held as accountable as the student who submits the copied material.