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(SADC
85 - as approved by Senate
February 9, 1981 and March 2, 1981)
STATEMENT ON INTELLECTUAL HONESTY
The academic standards and reputation of a university are a
shared responsibility of the faculty and students. Intellectual
honesty is a cornerstone of the development and acquisition of knowledge
and is a condition of continued membership in the university community.
Intellectual dishonesty may take many forms. For example,
the unacknowledged use of the ideas or published material of others
constitutes plagiarism. While much academic work must involve the
consideration of ideas and material originally conceived or made acces-
sibleby others, there is a significant difference between an acknowledged
restatement of such ideas and materials after intelligent assimilation,
and the intentional, unacknowledged reproduction of them. Other examples
of intellectual dishonesty are cheating on exams, aiding and abetting
cheating, the use of essays prepared by other persons, a falsification
of laboratory results, impersonation of another student at an examination,
misrepresentation of information on and the falsification of academic
records.
Academic Discipline
Sanctions imposed by the University for intellectual dishonesty may
include a simple warning, reassessment of the work, failure on the
particular assignment, failure in the course, denial of admission
or readmission, forfeiture of university financial aid, and suspen-
sion or expulsion from the University.
In deciding on the appropriate sanction to be imposed for an act
violating intellectual honesty, consideration will, be given to all
relevant matters including the extent of the dishonesty, the inadver-
tent or the deliberate character of the dishonesty, the importance of
the work in question as a course component, whether the act in question
Is an isolated incident or part of repeated acts of academic dis-
honesty, and to any mitigating or aggravating circumstances.
Procedures to be followed by university authorities or by a student
wishing to initiate an appeal in a case of academic discipline are
detailed in the University's Policies and Procedures Manual. Copies
of the procedures are available from the Office of the Registrar.
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