Academic Integrity

Academic dishonesty is prohibited in The City University of New York. Penalties for academic dishonesty include academic sanctions, such as failing or otherwise reduced grades, and/or disciplinary sanctions, including suspension or expulsion.

1. Definitions and Examples of Academic Dishonesty

1.1. Cheating is the unauthorized use or attempted use of material, information, notes, study aids, devices, or communication during an academic exercise.

Examples of cheating include:

• Copying from another student during an examination or allowing another to copy your work.

• Unauthorized collaboration on a take home assignment or examination.

• Using notes during a closed book examination.

• Taking an examination for another student, asking, or allowing another student to take an examination for you.

• Changing a graded exam and returning it for more credit.

• Submitting substantial portions of the same paper to more than one course without consulting with each instructor.

• Preparing answers or writing notes in a blue book (exam booklet) before an examination.

• Allowing others to research and write assigned papers or do assigned projects, including using commercial term paper services.

• Giving assistance to acts of academic misconduct/dishonesty.

• Fabricating data (in whole or in part).

• Falsifying data (in whole or in part).

• Submitting someone else's work as your own.

• Unauthorized use during an examination of any electronic devices such as cell phones, computers, or other technologies to retrieve or send information.

1.2. Plagiarism is the act of presenting another person's ideas, research or writing as your own. Examples of plagiarism include:

• Copying another person's actual words or images without the use of quotation marks and footnotes or citations attributing the words to their source.

• Presenting another person's ideas or theories in your own words without acknowledging the source.
• Failing to acknowledge collaborators on homework and laboratory assignments.
• Internet plagiarism, including submitting downloaded term papers or parts of term papers, paraphrasing or copying information from the internet without citing the source, or "cutting & pasting" from various sources without proper attribution.

1.3. Obtaining Unfair Advantage is any action taken by a student that gives that student an unfair advantage in his/her academic work over another student, or an action taken by a student through which a student attempts to gain an unfair advantage in his or her academic work over another student. Examples of obtaining unfair advantage include:

• Stealing, reproducing, circulating, or otherwise gaining advance access to examination materials.

• Depriving other students of access to library materials by stealing, destroying, defacing, or concealing them.

• Retaining, using, or circulating examination materials which clearly indicate that they should be returned at the end of the exam.

• Intentionally obstructing or interfering with another student's work.
• Self-plagiarism- reusing one's own work that was submitted in another class/context without obtaining the professor's permission.

1.4. Falsification of Records and Official Documents

Examples of falsification include:

• Forging signatures of authorization.

• Falsifying information on an official academic record.

• Falsifying information on an official document such as a grade report, letter of permission, drop/add form, ID card, or other college document.

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