Academic dishonesty is not acceptable. UW-Stout subscribes to the definitions of academic dishonesty provided by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. Fabrication-Intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise. Plagiarism-Intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as your own in any academic exercise. Plagiarism is considered a form of theft and at the university is a serious violation.
Penalties can range from a lowered grade to expulsion.
Facilitating Academic Dishonesty-Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty. Academic misconduct in the University of Wisconsin System is defined by UWS Chapter 14. Copyright 1999 UW-Stout . All Rights Reserved.