Penalties for these offenses will likely include failure for the course involved, and could include expulsion from the university. Students must work alone on assignments unless given explicit permission to work together by the course instructor or the assignment description. All graduate students are subject to these regulations. A complete copy may be found in the University Telephone Directory. The primary responsibility of the students, faculty, and administration is to create an atmosphere where the honesty of individuals will not be questioned.
Students are responsible for submitting their own work.
Students who cooperate on oral or written examinations or work without authorization share the responsibility for violation of academic principles, and the students are subject to disciplinary action even when one of the students is not enrolled in the course where the violation occurred. Faculty members may fail the student for the particular assignment, test or course involved, or they may recommend that the student drop the course in question, or these penalties may be varied with the gravity of the offense and the circumstances of the particular case. In addition to the prerogative above, or if the student is not enrolled in his or her course, the faculty member may recommend a disciplinary sanction to the dean of the college. The dean may impose academic warning or probation in the college, or the dean may recommend suspension or expulsion to the Academic Standards Committee as outlined in Section 4. If the student is not enrolled in the college where the infraction occurred, the dean of the college for the student must be informed before the disciplinary sanction is imposed and may impose a disciplinary sanction for that college, also.