Graduate School Guide: Academic Honesty
Graduate students at East Texas A&M University are expected to maintain high standards of integrity and honesty in all of their scholastic work. Faculty and staff members are expected to uphold and support student integrity and honesty by maintaining conditions that encourage and enforce academic honesty. Conduct that violates generally accepted standards of academic honesty is defined as being academically dishonest.
Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to:
Cheating
Intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices or materials in any academic exercise. Unauthorized materials may include anything or anyone that:
- gives a student assistance, and
- has not been specifically approved in advance by the instructor.
Complicity
Intentionally or knowingly helping, or attempting to help, another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
Examples
Abuse and Misuse of Access and Unauthorized Access
Students may not abuse or misuse computer access or gain unauthorized access to information in any academic exercise.
Fabrication
Making up data or results, and recording or reporting them; submitting fabricated documents.
Falsification
Manipulating research materials, equipment or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such as that the research is not accurately represented in the research record.
Forgery
Making a fictitious document, or altering an existing document, with the intent to deceive or gain advantage.
Multiple Submissions
Submitting substantial portions of the same work (including oral reports) for credit more than once without authorization from the instructor of the class for which the student submits the work.
Plagiarism
The appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results or words without giving appropriate credit.
Special Note Regarding Group Projects
If someone in a group commits academic misconduct, the entire group could be held responsible for it as well. It is important to document clearly who contributes what parts to the joint project, and to know what group members are doing and how they are acquiring the material they provide.
University Rules on Research
Students involved in conducting research and/or scholarly activities at East Texas A&M University must also adhere to standards set forth in University Procedure 15.99.03.R1 Ethics in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work.
Violation of Department or College Rules
Students may not violate any departmental or college rule relating to academic matters. If a graduate student is accused of academic dishonesty, the University Procedure 13.99.99.R0.10 Graduate Student Academic Dishonesty will be followed.