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Plagiarism and Academic Cheating

  1. Plagiarism and academic cheating are serious offenses. A faculty member may take action against any student who is suspected of plagiarism or academic cheating. The action taken may include the awarding of a failing grade on the assignment in question or removal from the course with the assignment of a course grade of F. A student who disputes the allegation of plagiarism or academic cheating may discuss the situation with the faculty member. If the student does not reach resolution after discussion with the faculty member, the student may discuss the situation with appropriate academic officers beginning with the department head or director followed by the appropriate dean or associate vice president.
  2. Plagiarism involves presenting the work, words, or ideas of another student, individual(s), or artificial intelligence without proper citation, even if unintentionally. Presenting someone else’s work as your own, even if in your own words, is plagiarism. It is plagiarism if the work you present is derived from the work of any other person, including, among others, any other student or College faculty member. It is plagiarism if the work you present is derived from any work, including among other things, any work of a literary, musical, dramatic, pictorial, graphic, sculptural, motion picture, sound recording, audiovisual or architectural nature, and regardless of the medium in which it is fixed, whether written, stored electronically, or in any other form by which it can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Presenting plagiarized work as your own may also constitute infringement under Federal copyright laws (Title 17 U.S.C.).
  3. Academic cheating involves the use or attempted use of any unauthorized materials or resources, including artificial intelligence, for any academic exercise. Cheating includes but is not limited to using another student’s work without that student’s expressed consent or without proper attribution; using any materials or resources, through any medium, which the faculty member has not given expressed permission to use; collaborating with another person through any medium when the faculty member has prohibited collaboration; submitting work produced by another person or artificial intelligence; impersonating another person in any academic activity or providing an unfair academic advantage to another person by producing or completing academic work or activities on behalf of another person, with or without compensation.

 

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