Academic Misconduct

The responsibility for academic honesty rests with the student. The College expects the student to submit papers, projects, and reports resulting from the student’s own efforts. Work submitted in any form should reflect the exclusive effort of the student. It is assumed that cheating on quizzes, tests, or examinations is not practiced by mature learners.

Plagiarism will not be tolerated at any time. Submitting another’s work as one’s own, in part or in whole, is a dishonest practice. A student may not plagiarize another person’s ideas whether published or not.

Consequences for proven cases of dishonest practices may include:

  1. Zero percent being given for the test, examination, report, quiz, paper, project, or any other course requirement on which the cheating has occurred; or
  2. Failure for the course in which the offense occurred; or
  3. Dismissal from the College.
  4. The student shall have the right to present his/her case through the student appeals procedure.

Even though the primary responsibility for academic integrity resides with the student, the instructor will endeavor to create a secure learning environment that inhibits cheating.