EdD in Educational Leadership: Academic Integrity

Definition of Academic Dishonesty 

Academic Dishonesty is any action that may result in an unfair academic advantage for oneself or others, including, but not limited to: 

• Plagiarism: Offering as one's own the words, ideas, arguments, code, or visuals (any medium, including electronic) of another. Appropriate citation (according to course instructor) with quotation marks, references and/or footnotes, is required when using any aspect of another’s work; the failure to do so, whether intentional or not, constitutes plagiarism. Copying homework or answers on an exam or report, submitting a term paper from the archives of a group or from another student, procuring a paper from an external source (electronic or otherwise) and submitting it as one’s own are additional, though not exhaustive, examples of plagiarism. 

• False citation: Providing false information about a source. This includes citing a title, author and page as if it were from one source when, in fact, it is from a different source, or including information that did not come from the cited source. 
• Cheating on exams and/or falsely claiming to have completed assigned work. 
• Forgery: Signing a faculty member’s, administrator’s or other student’s name to any assignment, or to any written or electronic communication about a course, or altering/forging said document or communication in order to mislead or to circumvent University policy. 
• Falsification: Altering any official University document, paper or examination to mislead others; or, any deception (written, oral, or electronic) of a University official in an attempt to circumvent University policy. 
• Computer abuse: Students are required to acknowledge any information, from word texts to full programs, that is not their own. In addition, infringing on the rights of other students to gain access to the computer system, deliberately destroying or infecting files, operating systems or code, copying files or programs without permission, and gaining access to and/or altering the functionality or stored data of any University or other student’s computer without permission are all considered incidents of academic dishonesty. 
• Destruction, theft or displacement of any library or other shared materials whether hard copy or electronic. 
• Multiple submissions: Work done for one course cannot be submitted for another course. Exceptions may be made only with the express written permission of both course instructors. 
• Unauthorized collaboration on academic assignments. 
• Aiding another student in the commission of academic dishonesty. 
• Making materials from any academic course (including, but not limited to, assignments, papers, quizzes, or tests) available to persons outside the class. This includes uploading to an online site not pre-approved by the course instructor. Such actions may also constitute a violation of the Intellectual Property Policy.

The following Committees oversee violations of Academic Integrity:  Academic Integrity Committee or Graduate Academic Standards Committee, hereafter referred to as the Committee)