Student Rights & Responsibilities

What are the rights and responsibilities of students?

• Student Conduct Standards
  Links to an external site.Cheating, plagiarism (including plagiarism in a student publication), or engaging in other academic dishonesty.
  1. Cheating is the use of any unauthorized materials, or information in academic work, records or programs, the intentional failure to follow express directives in academic work, records or programs, and/or assisting others to do the same including, but not limited to, the following:
     1. Knowingly procuring, providing, or accepting unauthorized examination materials or study aids.
     2. Completing, in part or in total, any examination or assignment for another person.
     3. Knowingly allowing any examination or assignment to be completed, in part or in total, for himself or herself by another (e.g., take - home exams or online assignments which have been completed by someone other than the student).
     4. Copying from another student’s test, paper, lab report or other academic assignment.
     5. Copying another student’s test answers.
     6. Copying, or allowing another student to copy, a computer file that contains another student’s assignment, homework lab reports, or computer programs and submitting it, in part or in its entirety, as one’s own.
     7. Using unauthorized sources of information such as crib sheets, answers stored in a calculator, or unauthorized electronic devices.
     8. Storing answers in electronic devices and allowing other students to use the information without the consent of the instructor.
     9. Employing aids excluded by the instructor in undertaking course work.
     10. Looking at another student’s exam during a test.
     11. Using texts or other reference materials (including dictionaries) when not authorized to do so.
     12. Knowingly gaining access to unauthorized data.
     13. Altering graded class assignments or examinations and then resubmitting them for regrading or reconsideration without the knowledge and consent of the instructor.
  2. Plagiarism is any conduct in academic work or programs involving misrepresentation of someone else’s words, ideas or data as one’s original work, including, but not limited to, the following:
     1. Intentionally representing as one’s own work the work, words, ideas or arrangement of ideas, research, formulae, diagrams, statistics, or evidence of another.
     2. Taking sole credit for ideas and/or written work that resulted from collaboration with others.
     3. Paraphrasing or quoting material without citing the source.
     4. Submitting as one’s own a copy of or the actual work of another person, either in part or in entirety, without appropriate citation (e.g., term - paper mill or internet derived products).
     5. Sharing computer files and programs or written papers and then submitting individual copies of the results as one’s own individual work.
     6. Submitting substantially the same material in more than one course without prior authorization from each instructor involved.
     7. Modifying another’s work and representing it as one’s own work
• Student Disciplinary Sanctions Links to an external site.
• Student Grievance Policy and Procedures Links to an external site.
• Students With Disabilities Links to an external site.

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