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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.