Last year, ten cases were presented to the Newcomb Honor Board, and over fifty percent resulted in convictions. Many of the cases last year involved freshmen, whom might not have been aware of the policies of the Tulane Honor Code. The honor code defines violation as all behaviors that hinder anyone's ability to receive a fair opportunity to learn or test. The code book provides a detailed list of specific infractions. Among the better known offenses is cheating on a work that is to be submitted for credit or the sabotaging of another student's work.
Fabrication is an infraction that involves altering information in an academic exercise.
Working in groups without the instructor's permission in order to obtain course credit is a violation called unauthorized collaboration. Turning in the same work for credit in two different courses without permission from both instructors is multiple submission. One infraction Dean Maguire advised students to be careful with is plagiarism. Dean Maguire explains that plagiarism is not simply the use of someone else's words but the use of the substance of their work. Using someone's work off if the internet without acknowledgment is also plagiarism, states Dean Maguire.