TAMIU Student Handbook 2019-2020

Page 37 of 86 ARTICLE 7. ACADEMIC CONDUCT As members in an academic community, students at TAMIU are expected to act with honesty and integrity in their pursuit of higher education, be mature, be self-directed and be able to manage their own affairs. Students who are unwilling to abide by these basic expectations may find themselves facing academic and disciplinary sanctions. Students are expected to share in the responsibility and authority with faculty and staff to challenge and make known acts that violate the TAMIU Honor Code. For more information on the Honor Code, please visit the Office of Student Conduct and Community Engagement website at https://www.tamiu.edu/scce/ . TAMIU Faculty have the authority to implement academic rules or impose grade penalties as appropriate. For more information, please visit the TAMIU Faculty Handbook available at http://www.tamiu.edu/senate/handbook.shtml . Section 7.01 Violations of Academic Conduct Academic dishonesty is any act, or attempt, which gives an unfair advantage to the student. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to: 1. Plagiarism – The act of passing off some other person’s ideas, words, or works as one’s own. It includes, but is not limited to, the appropriating, buying, receiving as a “gift,” or obtaining, by any other means, another’s work for submission as one’s own academic work. Examples include, but are not limited to: a. If in a paper or assignment, you include material that you researched in a book, magazine, newspaper, and/or on the Internet, you MUST cite the source. b. If you copy test answers or the words or phrases of another without crediting the author or claim credit for the ideas of another. c. If you borrow or lend a term paper, hand in, as your own work, a paper purchased from an individual or off the Internet, or submit, as one's own, any papers from living group's, club’s, or organization's files. d. If you hand in the same paper in more than one class without the permission of the instructor. 2. Cheating – An act of deception in which a student misrepresents that the student has mastered information related to an academic exercise. Examples include, but are not limited to: a. Copying from another student’s test, lab report, computer file, data listing, logs, or any other type of report or academic exercise. b. Using unauthorized materials during a test. c. Consulting a cell phone, text messages, PDAs, programmable calculators with materials that give an advantage over other students during an exam.