Plagiarism / Cheating

Plagiarism is the act of submitting the writing or ideas of someone else as your own without giving proper credit to the original author of the writing or idea.  In order to insure fairness and consistency in handling this problem, incidents of plagiarism will be dealt with as follows:

A student found to be guilty of plagiarism in a class assignment may receive an “F” for the assignment in question and may be assigned a disciplinary consequence.  Also, an effort will be made for the student to redo the assignment or an alternative assignment as a demonstration of what they have learned.