Wayne Prestenbach

Cheating:  Cheating is defined as the act of giving unauthorized assistance to or receiving unauthorized assistance from another individual or other source for the purpose of completing academic requirements.  This includes, but is not limited to, completion of homework, tests, projects, research assignments, or other course requirements.  Examples include, but are not limited to:  1) during an examination, receiving or giving information not allowed by the instructor—to include allowing another student to copy  work;  2) plagiarizing or representing another person’s work (published or unpublished) as one’s own;  3) copying all or part of another’s work and claiming it as one’s own;  4) copying all or parts of information (either word for word or with interchanging words) without citing the source; 5) obtaining, distributing, or referring to a copy of an examination which the instructor and/or department has not authorized to be made available for such purpose; 6) submitting work that has been previously or is being concurrently used in a different class by oneself or by another student.  (Special permission must be obtained to develop work for a class which was prepared for another class.); 7) misrepresentation of data for any purpose; 8) other examples of academic misconduct.  A cheating violation may result in a penalty imposed by the instructor and/or may be referred to the Dean of Students Services for presentation to the Academic Integrity Council.