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Academic Dishonesty

The University of Texas at Dallas

Handbook of Operating Procedures

Title V - Rules on Student Services and Activities

SUBCHAPTER F. STUDENT STANDARDS OF CONDUCT

Section 49.36 SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY

1. The university expects from its students a high level of responsibility with respect to academic honesty. Because the value of an academic degree depends on the absolute integrity of the work done by the student for that degree, it is imperative that a student maintain a high standard of individual honor in his or her scholastic work.
2. The dean may initiate disciplinary proceedings under subchapter C against a student accused of scholastic dishonesty upon complaint by a faculty member or a student.
3. Scholastic dishonesty is the submission as one's own work or material that is not one's own. As a general rule, it includes, but is not limited to, one of the following acts:
4. Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
   1. copying from another student's test paper, laboratory report, other report, or computer files, data listings, and/or programs.
   2. using during a test, materials not authorized by the person giving the test;
   3. failing to comply with instructions given by the person administering the test which would include, but not be limited to, time restrictions use of bluebook, seating arrangements;
   4. collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test or other assignment without authority;
   5. knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting in whole or in part the contents of an unadministered test, test key, homework solutions, or computer program;
   6. substituting for another student, or permitting another person to substitute for oneself, to take a test;
   7. bringing another person to obtain an unadministered test or information about an unadministered test;
   8. discussing the contents of an examination with another student who will take the examination;
   9. possession during a test of materials which are not authorized by the person giving the test, such as class notes of specifically designed "crib notes." The presence of textbooks constitutes a violation only if they have been specifically prohibited by the person administering the test.
   10. submission of substantial portions of the same academic work for credit (including oral reports) more than once without written authorization from the instructor.
5. Plagiarism means the appropriation, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another's work and the submission or incorporation of that work in one's own written work offered for credit without appropriate attribution.
6. Collusion means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing academic assignments offered for credit.
7. Falsifying academic records means the altering of grades or other falsification (statements, acts or omissions) of academic records including but not limited to the application for admission, grade reports, test papers, registration materials, and reporting forms used by the registrar's office or other university offices.
8. Falsifying data or experiments includes, but is not limited to, the submission of false findings and/or the citation of false references in research or other assignments submitted for credit and/or for the awarding of a degree.