Academic Honesty Policy

Original Work

Illinois Tech expects students to maintain high standards of academic integrity. Students preparing for the practice of a profession are expected to conform to a code of integrity and ethical standards commensurate with the high expectations society places upon the practitioners of a learned profession. No student may seek to gain an unfair advantage over another.

It shall be a violation of this Code for a student to engage in conduct that violates the established standards of his or her major academic discipline, the established standards of the academic discipline in which she or he is engaged, the established standards of the profession of which she or he is training, or the standards of Illinois Tech set forth herein. In addition, it is a violation of this Code for a student, whether or not currently enrolled at Illinois Tech, knowingly to engage or attempt to engage in the following or to engage or to attempt to engage in a course of action that would cause a reasonable student to conclude a violation of any of the following would be the likely result:

• The misrepresentation of any work submitted for credit or otherwise as the product of a student’s sole independent effort, such as using the ideas of others without attribution and other forms of plagiarism;;
• The use of any unauthorized assistance in taking quizzes, tests or examinations;;
• The acquisition, without permission, of tests, answers sheets, problem solutions or other academic material when such material has been withheld from distribution by the instructor;;
• Deliberate and harmful obstruction of the studies, research or academic work of any member of the Illinois Tech community;
• Making material misrepresentation in any submission to or through any office of IIT to a potential employer, agency, professional society, meeting or organization; or
• The intentional assistance of others in the violation of the standards set forth in this Code.

What constitutes a violation?

Copying published or written work of others without proper

Dishonesty REWARD

• Expulsion from course
• Suspension
• Expulsion

If a violation concerns conduct relating to coursework, the course instructor may meet with the student and impose one of the sanctions below if, after the meeting, the instructor has satisfied himself or herself that a violation has in fact occurred. The meeting may be held in consultation with the academic unit head or with the Academic Honesty Committee of the academic unit. The course instructor will report the violation, a summary of the facts evidencing the violation and the sanction to the DDAD. Appropriate sanctions include:

• Expulsion from a course. The student is assigned a punitive failing grade of ‘E’ for the course and can no longer participate in the course or receive evaluation of coursework from the instructor.
• Reduction in grade. A reduction in grade for the assignment or exam involved or for the course may be applied.

Academic Dishonesty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty#cite_note-4

Academic dishonesty, academic misconduct or academic fraud is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise. It can include

• Plagiarism: The adoption or reproduction of original creations of another author (person, collective, organization, community or other type of author, including anonymous authors) without due acknowledgment.
• Fabrication: The falsification of data, information, or citations in any formal academic exercise.
• Deception: Providing false information to an instructor concerning a formal academic exercise—e.g., giving a false excuse for missing a deadline or falsely claiming to have submitted work.
• Cheating: Any attempt to obtain assistance in a formal academic exercise (like an examination) without due acknowledgment (including the use of cheat sheets).
• Bribery or paid services: Giving assignment answers or test answers for money.
• Sabotage: Acting to prevent others from completing their work. This includes cutting pages out of library books or willfully disrupting the experiments of others.
• Professorial misconduct: Professorial acts that are academically fraudulent equate to academic fraud and/or grade fraud.
• Impersonation: assuming a student's identity with intent to provide an advantage for the student.^[1][2][3][4]