Every student is responsible for understanding this policy. By registering at the College, every student accepts the obligation to abide by this policy. Students are also responsible for understanding the particular policy applications required by each of their instructors and to ask the instructor for clarification of any areas of uncertainty . Academic honesty requires that each person accept the obligation to be truthful in all academic endeavors. To help members of the community understand the implications of academic honesty, the College provides the following explanation of academic dishonesty.
Plagiarism is a form of cheating and stealing.
It is morally unacceptable as well as against academic policy. Paraphrase is the direct use of others' ideas, data, or structures of thought stated in language substantially different from the source upon which they depend, and therefore not requiring quotation marks even though the substance of the material is borrowed. As borrowed material, appropriate recognition of the source must be given. The College will discipline students for infractions of the Academic Honesty Policy with various sanctions which it deems appropriate, up to and including suspension or expulsion from the College. Penalties internal to a course, including grades and expulsion from the course, are at the discretion of the instructor.