Academic Integrity

Facilitation

Assisting, knowingly helping, supporting, conspiring, or colluding with others to engage in any form of academic dishonesty, including but not limited to two or more students that work together to produce individually submitted work without permission of the appropriate faculty member.

Examples:

• Sharing information from tests or quizzes
• Providing answers to tests or quizzes
• Working on individual assignments together when prohibited or without permission
• Writing a paper for someone else

Plagiarism

Claiming as your own ideas, words, data, computer programs, creative compositions, artwork, etc., done by someone else. Examples include improper citation of referenced works, the use of commercially available scholarly papers, failure to cite sources, or copying another person’s ideas. 

Examples:

• Partially cited sources that don't include all the needed information (the author's name is included, but not the page number)
• Inaccurate citation information (the wrong name or publication title is used)
• Verbatim quotations that are cited but not put in quotation marks
• Perfectly cited sources with little or no original work from the author in the final paper
• Failing to cite paraphrased quotes in between direct quotes, thereby indicating the paraphrases are original ideas

You do not have to cite something if it's common knowledge. Common knowledge is something most readers would already know or something that could be easily found in general reference sources, like encyclopedias.

The earth is round = common knowledge
The earth has about 197 million square miles of total surface area = NOT common knowledge

Self-Plagairism

Resubmitting your own previously submitted work without proper citation and permission from the current instructor to whom the original work was subsequently submitted.

False Information

Providing false information, including presenting as genuine any fabricated citation, data, or material. Falsifying, altering, or incorrectly defining the contents of documents or other materials related to academic matters for yourself or for another student.

Example:

• Providing incorrect statistics or facts on an assignment
• Falsifying medical or other professional documents in an attempt to receive accommodations, such as access to online learning
• Falsifying medical or other professional documents in an attempt to avoid or delay required coursework
• Falsifying medical or other professional documents in an attempt to impact a grade

Unauthorized or Undisclosed Use of Artificial Intelligence

Using AI Generative technologies, including but not limited to text generation or paraphrasing tools, grammar assistance or other editorial tools, image generation, image analysis, computer coding, clinical functional analysis, or other clinical areas, in a manner that is not allowed by the course instructor, as outlined in the course syllabus.  If use is authorized, AI assistance must be referenced and disclosed as required on all assignments, including homework questions and take-home exam questions.  Artificial Intelligence cannot be used as a proxy to pass a University course.
 
Note: improper artificial intelligence use may result in an additional charge of cheating and/ or plagiarism.