Academic Honesty

Graduate students are expected to pursue their academic careers with honesty and integrity. The value of an academic degree is dependent on the integrity of the work done for the degree. Academic honesty is thus important to all students, as well as the faculty.

"Scholastic dishonesty" includes, but is not limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion (Handbook of Operating Procedures, Part 5, Section 1).

"Cheating" on a test includes:

Copying from another student's paper;
Using during a test, materials not authorized by the person giving the test;
Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test, without authority;
Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting, in whole or part, the contents of a test;
Substituting for another student or permitting another student to substitute for one's self to take a test; and
Bribing another person to obtain a test or information about an un-administered test.

"Plagiarism" means the appropriation, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another's work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one's own written work offered for credit.

"Collusion" means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work offered for credit.

Further information on "Student Conduct and Discipline" is included in the Student Guide available in the Office of Student Life