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| | The policy on Academic Integrity was formally adopted by the Academic Senate and Administration in June 2004. The Academic Integrity policy defined in Executive Memorandum 04-36 (EM 04-36) defines cheating, misuse of sources, plagiarism and outlines the responsbilities of students, faculty members and administrators and staff members. The policy also establishes the Council for Promoting Academic Integrity on the CSU Chico campus. | |
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| | "Cheating is intentional fraud or deception for the purpose of improving a grade or obtaining course credit and includes all behavior intended to gain unearned academic advantage. Cheating includes either helping or attempting to help another person cheat." EM04-36 | |
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| | "Misuse of sources is defined as “carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words borrowed from another source. [ . . . ] Ethical writers make every effort to acknowledge sources fully and appropriately in accordance with the contexts and genres of their writing. A student who attempts (even if clumsily) to identify and credit his or her source, but who misuses a specific citation format or incorrectly uses quotation marks or other forms of identifying material taken from other sources has not plagiarized. Instead, such a student [has] failed to cite and document sources appropriately.” (EM04-36) | |
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| | “Plagiarism occurs when a [student] deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source.” (EM04-36) | |
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| | Bringing questions to your fellow students or to your instructors and receiving insight/instruction is common in industry and is approved by many departments and programs. A good way to learn something is to help a colleague figure it out, and a colleague may be better able to explain your confusion than a professor. This helping activity is encouraged and falls within the category of authorized collaboration. Prior to seeking assistance, however, it is important that you have exhausted the resources at hand. You should have tried on your own to solve the problem, examine documentation,and gather information from the text and class materials. When a student or groups of students copy from each other without exhausting the resources associated with the course, then the collaboration is not authorized. There are severe penalties for turning in work done by others as your own. Identical assignments {in part or in whole} can result in failing grades for either the assignment or the course for all students involved. [modified from syllabus wording provided by J. Connolly, MINS 435 syllabus] | |
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