INDEX

Introduction
Table of Contents

Policies in Process

Preliminaries

Policies

1. Legal Authority and Governance

2. University-wide

3. Presidential Area

4. Academic Affairs

5. Business Affairs

6. Student Life

7. University Advancement

8. Administrative Services

Academic Honesty

Policy Statement

The Marywood University community functions best when its members treat one another with honesty, fairness, and trust. The entire community, students and faculty alike, recognize the necessity and accept the responsibility for academic honesty. Students must realize that deception for individual gain is an offense against the entire community. Cheating and plagiarism are behaviors destructive of the learning process and of the ethical standards expected of all students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Students have a responsibility to know and adhere to the University's Academic Honesty policy. Violations of this academic honesty statement or the intent of this statement carry consequences. University procedures for investigation of alleged violations of this policy ensure that students are protected from arbitrary or capricious disciplinary action. Sanctions for violations of academic honesty ordinarily are determined by the course instructor. If necessary, the chairperson and/or academic dean may become involved. Sanctions determined by the instructor may include a grade of F for the coursework in which the infraction occurred. Academic probation, dismissal from the program and/or dismissal from the University are sanctions that may be determined by the academic dean of the college in which the student is enrolled after an investigation of the alleged violation. An academic dean may choose at any time to refer charges of academic dishonesty to the Dean of Students for adjudication in the University disciplinary/judicial system. Likewise, a member of the University community may submit a disciplinary report against a student, group of students, or student organization for alleged violations of the Academic Honesty policy to the Dean of Students, who will refer it to the appropriate academic dean for possible adjudication in the University's disciplinary/judicial system.

Definitions

Cheating is defined as but not limited to the following:

1. having unauthorized material and/or electronic devices during an examination without the permission of the instructor;
2. copying from another student or permitting copying by another student in a testing situation;
3. completing an assignment for another student, or submitting an assignment done by another student, e.g., exam, paper, laboratory or computer report;
4. submitting out-of-class work for an in-class assignment;
5. changing grades or falsifying records;
6. unauthorized retention of exams;
7. submission of an identical assignment to two different classes without the permission of the instructors;
8. inventing data or falsifying an account of data collection unless instructed to do so by the course instructor;
9. creating the impression, through improper referencing, that the student has read material that was not read.

Plagiarism is defined as the offering as one's own work the words, ideas, existing imagery, or arguments of another person without appropriate attribution by quotation, reference, or footnote. It includes close paraphrasing without appropriate citation.

Procedures

The student has a right to appeal sanctions through the University's Academic Grievance Procedures.

Related Policies and Committees

Committee: Judicial Board
Policy: Professional Ethics
Policy: Conditions of Computer Use

History of the Policy

12/15/95 - Approved by the President of the University as recommended by the University Committee on Policy; replaces previous policy titled Cheating and Plagiarism
03/12/04 - Revision approved by the President of the University as recommended by the Policy Committee of the University