Policies & Procedures Manual

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Policy No: 404.8

Policy Contact: Vice President for Instruction

Policy Title: ACADEMIC DISHONESTY East Central Community College is dedicated to providing an educational structure that promotes not only learning, but also personal enrichment and preparation for assuming a constructive position in the workforce and/or society at large. Because academic dishonesty weakens the quality of education, the reputation of an institution, and the future prospects of students and also diminishes the legitimate accomplishments of conscientious students, the College enforces the following policy regarding academic dishonesty: Academic dishonesty includes any dishonest or prohibited action taken by a student in order to receive any type of credit or recognition. It is the responsibility of all members of the College community including students, faculty, staff, and administration to report any instances of academic dishonesty in accordance with the College’s policy. Students are responsible for verifying that any work submitted for credit or recognition is their own conscientiously constructed work and must therefore keep records/and or copies of work that can be submitted to an appropriate College authority if requested. Using or attempting to use prohibited materials; attaining information, answers, or other materials from prohibited sources (including another student’s test, project, or materials); engaging another person or service to complete one’s own assigned work; collaborating with another person or service when collaboration has not been approved by the instructor. Representing the work, words, ideas, opinion, interpretation, analysis, process, results, or artistic endeavor of another person or source as one’s own, either deliberately or carelessly. Plagiarism may include, but is not limited to, the following: • Failing to acknowledge the work of another person or source by correct and adequate citation and documentation • Submitting work done by another person or source in order to receive credit for oneself • Using exact words from another person or source without putting those exact words in quotation marks and providing correct and adequate citation and documentation • Paraphrasing, summarizing, or otherwise altering and then utilizing the work of another person or source without correctly and adequately citing and documenting the person or source • Failing to cite and document all sources used in any way in an assignment • Submitting work done by oneself but previously utilized in another course or project (including all work done in all educational institutions other than East Central Community College) without the expressed consent of the instructor of the current course to do so. Fabricating results or information or using the identification or access materials of another person or source including all documents, electronic assignments and sites, or any other material that in any way pertains to the College. Knowingly allowing, failing to report, or participating in any way in any instance of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism : Forgery : Collusion : Instances of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to, the following: Cheating :