The Honor Code adopted by the Student Government Association is signed by each student and serves as an absolute commitment. This code is found on the back of the front cover, as well as page 34. Plagiarism is the unacknowledged or unauthorized borrowing of material without giving appropriate credit to the source of information. Borrowed material may consist of ideas and organization, as well as direct quotations or paraphrases from printed and electronic sources without proper documentation.
Instructors establish penalties for plagiarism on an individual basis.
In cases where plagiarism occurs, the instructor submits written documentation to the appropriate Division Chair and Vice President for Academic Affairs describing the incident and the penalty imposed. Any student who is involved in more than one incident of plagiarism is subject to suspension from Brevard College. Cheating is the attempt to practice deliberate deception or fraud through use of incorrectly obtained information or work. The attempt to exchange verbal or written information during testing. In cases involving cheating in any form, the instructor submits through the Division Chair to the Vice President for Academic Affairs written documentation describing the incident and the penalty imposed.