Academic Integrity

• Your responsibility in this area simply cannot be overstated.

• Academic integrity includes numerous components. The Student Code of Conduct specifies that violations of academic integrity are grounds for dismissal from the University.

• Review these important University resources because you are responsible for understanding and upholding all policies and expectations of academic integrity and student conduct:

o Office for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity (OSCAI)

o Student Conduct Code

o Sexual Harassment Policy

• Academic dishonesty, which is grounds for dismissal, consists of plagiarism, cheating, unauthorized collaboration, obtaining test materials without faculty permission, submitting false records of achievement, falsifying, altering, or forging records, and fabricating data for research and analysis.

• Plagiarism (again, grounds for dismissal) is probably the most common form of academic dishonesty and is often unintentional, but the consequences are nonetheless serious and severe. Understand how to do citations and the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing. Plagiarism is presenting the ideas, words, and work of someone else as your own instead of appropriately citing the originator of the work. Ease of access to information via the internet has caused an increase in plagiarism. Any information, data, or expressions coming from someone else or another source must be properly cited. If there is any doubt in your mind regarding what needs to be cited, it is your responsibility to seek clarification from instructors, faculty advisers, and librarians.

• To learn more about how to cite sources and avoid plagiarism, complete online tutorials prepared by the University of Minnesota libraries or work with the Center for Writing which will provide feedback in particular papers before you submit them to instructors. Links to these resources can be found in the Humphrey Help Center.