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2011.9 Facilitating Academic Dishonesty

Definition - Helping or attempting to help another person commit an act of academic dishonesty.

Scope - all encompassing. Examples: This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

a. Providing assistance to another during an exam or on another assignment in a manner not authorized by the instructor.

b. Acting as a substitute for another in any type of academic violation.

c. Providing specific information about a recently given test, exam or other assignment to another student who thereby gains an unfair advantage in an academic evaluation.

d. Permitting one's academic work to be represented as the work of another including allowing another student to copy one’s work to submit for a grade.

e. Preparing for sale, barter or loan to another such items as unauthorized papers, notes, abstracts of lectures or readings.

Sanctions
Course related response - sanctions related to the course in which the violation occurred, including the course grade with an optional "honor code F", will be assigned by the professor.

Institutional response - Academic Censure with notification letter to parents/guardians; sanctions resulting from egregious or multiple honor code violations will be determined by the associate vice president for academic affairs. These sanctions may include preliminary suspension, disciplinary suspension or permanent separation from the university.