Academic Standards

The School of Graduate Studies governs the responsibility of students to maintain integrity in academic work, defines violations of the standards, describes procedures for handling alleged violations of the standards, and lists applicable penalties.  The following conduct is prohibited:

1. Cheating. Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices in any academic exercise. This definition includes unauthorized communication of information during an academic exercise.
    
2. Fabrication and Falsification. Intentional and unauthorized alteration or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise. Falsification is a matter of altering information, while fabrication is a matter of inventing or counterfeiting information for use in any academic exercise.
    
3. Multiple Submission. The submission of substantial portions of the same academic work (including oral reports) for credit more than once without authorization.
    
4. Plagiarism. Intentionally or knowingly presenting the work of another as one’s own (i.e., without proper 
   acknowledgment of the source). The sole exception to the requirement of acknowledging sources is when the 
   ideas, information, etc., are common knowledge. 
    
5. Abuse of Academic Materials. Intentionally or knowingly destroying, stealing, or making inaccessible.
    
6. Complicity in Academic Dishonesty. Intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.