Code of Academic and Scholarly Integrity
The King Graduate School is an academic community. Its fundamental purpose is the pursuit of knowledge in preparation for a career and for life. Essential to the success of this educational mission is a commitment to the principles of academic integrity. Every member of the college community is responsible for upholding the highest standards of honesty at all times. Students, as members of the community, are also responsible for adhering to the principles and spirit of the following Code of Academic and Scholarly Integrity.
Activities that have the effect or intention of interfering with education, pursuit of knowledge, or fair evaluation of a student’s performance are prohibited. Examples of such activities include, but are not limited to, the following definitions:
A. Cheating: Using or attempting to use unauthorized assistance, material, electronic devices or study aids in examinations or other academic work or preventing, or attempting to prevent, another from using authorized assistance, material, or study aids. Example: using a cell phone or cheat sheet during an exam or quiz, altering a graded exam and resubmitting it for a better grade, etc.
B. Plagiarism: Using the ideas, data, or language of another without specific or proper acknowledgment. Example: copying another person’s paper, article, or computer work and submitting it for an assignment, cloning someone else’s ideas without attribution, failing to use quotation marks where necessary, submitting papers obtained from any other source, using online sites that provide plagiarized content, etc.
C. Fabrication: Submitting contrived or altered information in any academic exercise. Example: making up data for an experiment, falsifying data, citing nonexistent articles, contriving sources, submitting altered or falsified internship timesheets and/or employer evaluations, etc.
D. Multiple Submissions: Submitting, without prior permission, any work submitted to fulfill another academic requirement at Monroe or any other institution.
E. Misrepresentation of academic records: Misrepresenting or tampering with, or attempting to tamper with, any portion of a student’s transcript or academic record, either before or after coming to Monroe College. Example: forging a change of grade form, tampering with computer records, falsifying academic information on one’s resume, etc.
F. Facilitating academic dishonesty: Knowingly helping or attempting to help another violate any provision of the Code. Example: working together on a take-home exam without prior permission from the instructor, etc.
G. Unfair advantage: Attempting to gain unauthorized advantage over fellow students in an academic exercise. Example: gaining or providing unauthorized access to examination materials, obstructing or interfering with another student’s efforts in an academic exercise, lying about a need for an extension for an exam or paper, continuing to write even when time is up during an exam, destroying or keeping library materials for one’s own use, etc.
Penalties: Students who violate the Code of Academic and Scholarly Integrity may be subject to a grade of “F” for the work submitted, an “F” in the course, written reprimands in the student’s academic file, ineligibility for academic awards and suspension and/or dismissal from the College.
Students are expected to be fully aware of the College requirements and expectations regarding academic honesty and scholarly integrity. If a student is unsure whether his or her action(s) constitute a violation of the Code of Academic and Scholarly Integrity, then it is that student’s responsibility to consult with the instructor or a college official to clarify any ambiguities.