Academic Catalog 2024-25

Cheating

While plagiarism is, perhaps, the most common form of academic cheating, other violations of scholarly integrity also undermine the learning process and compromise personal honor. Any effort to flout the general standards of academic conduct or to circumvent the stated course expectations of individual instructors constitutes “cheating” and violates the University Honor Code. Such dishonorable behavior includes:

  • Using information from another student’s research or paper
  • Copying information from another student’s test or using unauthorized materials during an examination, whether an in-class or take-home exam
  • Buying, selling, or stealing test questions, answers, or term papers
  • Doing work or taking tests on behalf of another student or submitting work done by another person
  • Falsifying data or laboratory results
  • Submitting the same work for more than one course