|
Academic Honesty Policy
As members of a scholarly community dedicated to healthy intellectual
development, students and faculty at Edgewood College are expected to
share the responsibility for maintaining high standards of honesty and
integrity in their academic work. Each student should reflect this sense
of responsibility toward the community by submitting work that is a
product of his or her own effort in a particular course, unless the
instructor has directed otherwise. In order to clarify and emphasize its
standards for academic honesty, the College has adopted this policy.The following are examples of violations of standards
for academic honesty and are subject to academic sanctions: Cheating on
exams; submitting collaborative work as one's own; falsifying records,
achievements, field or laboratory data, or other course work; stealing
examinations or course materials; submitting work previously submitted
in another course, unless specifically approved by the present
instructor; falsifying documents or signing an instructor's or
administrator's name to any document or form; plagiarism*; or aiding
another student in any of the above actions.
*Plagiarism, which is defined as the deliberate use of
another's ideas or words or images as if they were one's own, can take
many forms, from the egregious to the mild. Instances most commonly
seen in work by students in order from most to least serious are:
-
borrowing, buying or stealing another person’s work
for one’s own use; lending or selling one’s own work for another's
use as his or her own;
-
getting so much help on a work from someone else,
including a college tutor, that the student can no longer
legitimately claim to be the author/creator;
-
intentionally using source material** improperly,
e.g., neither citing or using quotation marks on borrowed materials;
supplying an in-text citation but failing to enclose quoted material
within quotation marks; leaving paraphrased material too close to
the original version; failing to give credit to the original
author/creator as the source of an idea, image, or paraphrased
material; failing to provide a list of works cited or misusing
borrowed sources through ignorance or carelessness.
**Source material can include ideas, words or images
from any source in any format, (including books, newspapers, journals,
magazines, pamphlets, interviews, video and internet sites). The
student’s “work” can include written essays, oral presentations, art
work, lab experiments — any ideas, words or images in any format
(written, graphic, electronic, etc.)
Academic Sanctions
Since cheating occurs in a specific context, penalties for specific
violations of standards for academic honesty are difficult to stipulate
in advance. Certain violations, such as stealing and plagiarizing,
involve legal as well as ethical concerns, and therefore sanctions for
these will generally be more severe. Sanctions enforced by the
instructor may include: reducing an assignment grade, reducing a course
grade, assigning additional work, and/or referring the violation to the
Associate Academic Dean for appropriate action.
A student has the right to appeal any sanctions that
result from an alleged violation of standards for academic honesty. Such
appeals should follow established academic appeals procedures.
|
Madison, Wisconsin 53711