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Academic Integrity

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Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest, and responsible manner. Academic integrity is a guiding principle for all academic activity at ż Chicago, and all members of the University community are expected to act in accordance with this principle.

Standards

Failing to meet the following standards is a serious violation of personal honesty and the academic ideals that bind the University into a learning community. These standards apply to both individual and group assignments. Individuals working in a group may be held responsible if one of the group members has violated one or more of these standards.

1. Students may not plagiarize.

a. Plagiarism involves taking and using specific words, phrases, or ideas of others without proper acknowledgement of the sources. Students may not:

1. Submit material copied from a published or unpublished source.

2. Submit material that is not cited appropriately.

3. Use another person's unpublished work or examination material.

4. Allow or pay another party to prepare or write an assignment.

5. Purchase, acquire, or use a pre-written assignment for credit.

2. Students may not submit the same work for credit for more than one assignment (known as self-plagiarism).

a. If a student plans to submit work with similar or overlapping content two or more times for any purpose, the student should consult with all instructors prior to submission of the work to make certain that such submission will not violate this standard.

3. Students may not fabricate data.

a. All experimental data, observations, interviews, statistical surveys, and other information collected and reported as part of academic work must be authentic. Any alteration, e.g., the removal of statistical outliers, must be clearly documented. Data must not be falsified in any way.

4. Students may not collude.

a. Students may not work with others on any exam, assignment or portion of an assignment without permission from the instructor.

b. Students’ work with one another on an exam or assignments may not exceed the terms of their instructors’ directions for collaboration as part of the assignment.

c. Students may not use work submitted by another student in a previous semester of a course.

5. Students may not cheat.

a. Students may not obtain, distribute, or communicate examination materials prior to the scheduled examination without the consent of the instructor.

b. Students may not take an examination by proxy. Taking or attempting to take an exam for someone else is a violation by both the student enrolled in the course and the proxy.

c. Students may not attempt to change answers after an examination or an assignment has been submitted.

d. Students may not falsify medical or other documents for any reason.

e. Students may not use unauthorized study aids in an exam. Examples include, but are not limited to:

i. Bringing notes into an exam that does not allow outside materials.

ii. Programming equations into a calculator when the instructor has indicated that students are to be tested on the recall of those same equations.

iii. Using any electronic device that allows students to look up, translate, calculate, or communicate information with someone else.

6. Students may not facilitate academic misconduct.

a. For example, a student may not allow another student to copy from their exam or give their own work to another student.

 Sanctions

1. An instructor is responsible for determining the sanctions for academic misconduct in the course sections they teach. Minimally, the instructor will assign the grade of a zero for the assignment or examination. The instructor may choose to impose a penalty grade of “F” for the course.

2. Deans may add and/or elevate the initial sanctions based on a student’s conduct history, such as a penalty grade of “F” for the course, suspension, expulsion, and/or the inclusion of educational assignments.

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