Academic dishonesty is an encompassing term involving any activity that seeks to gain credit for work one has not done or to deliberately damage or destroy the work of others.
Plagiarism is defined as misrepresenting another's ideas, phrases, discourse or works as one's own.
If it is determined by an instructor that a student is guilty of academic misconduct, it is the prerogative of the instructor to assign a penalty. All such actions must be reported in writing to the Dean of the CBPA with a copy of the report supplied to the student. The report must, at a minimum, state the nature of the misconduct and the penalty assigned. The Dean's copy is to be kept in a tile devoted exclusively to reports of this kind. This file should be accessible only to individuals who have a need to know its contents.