Academic Dishonesty Definitions

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY DEFINITIONS 

A. Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of stealing and using the ideas, data, and writing of another as if they were one’s own. A person has plagiarized when they: 

1. Copies phrases, sentences, or paragraphs out of books, magazines, or other sources and presents it as their own. 

2. Presents someone else’s argument, opinion, idea, or style as their own. 

3. Copies someone else’s paper and presents it as their own. 

4. Borrow facts, statistics, data, or other illustrative information unless information is common knowledge. Submits as their own any academic exercise (e.g. written work, documentation, lab reports, and homework, photographs, or artwork) prepared totally or in part by another. 

5. Misuse of Generative AI (Gemini, ChatGPT, CoPilot,etc.).

B. Cheating 

Cheating is an act of deception by which a student misrepresents that they have mastered information on an academic exercise that they have not mastered. Examples (including but not limited to): 

1. Copying from another student’s test paper and/or other assignment.

2. Using the course textbook or other materials such as notes not authorized for use during a test. 

3. Collaborating during a test with any other person by knowingly receiving or providing information without authority. 

4. Using specifically prepared unauthorized materials or equipment during a test, e.g. notes, formulas, lists, etc. 

5. Falsifying reports of clinical visits, laboratory exercises, field experiences, interviews, or using an online Foreign Language translation program to look up the meaning/use of more than one or two isolated words in a passage. 

C. Academic Misconduct 

Academic misconduct is tampering with grades, or taking part in obtaining or distributing any part of an un-administered test or distributing any information about a test. 

Examples (including but not limited to): 

1. Stealing, buying, or otherwise obtaining all or part of an un-administered test. 

2. Selling or giving away all or part of an un-administered test. 

3. Bribing any other person to obtain an un-administered test or any information about the test. 

4. Entering a building, office file, or computer/computer system for the purpose of changing a grade on a test, in a grade book, or on other work for which a grade was given. 

5. Actively facilitating another student’s copying from one’s own test paper. 

6. Changing, altering, or being an accessory to the changing or altering of a grade or grade book on a test, a change of grade form, or other official record. 

D. Fabrication 

Fabrication is the use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings with the intent to deceive. Examples (including but not limited to): 

1. Citing information not taken from the source indicated. 

2. Listing sources in a bibliography not used in the academic exercise. 

3. Inventing data or source information for research or other academic exercise. 

4. Taking a test for someone or permitting someone else to take a test for you. 

5. Reporting a clinical visit, observation, or interview completed when it was not.