student handbook - Baton Rouge Community College

Appendix E – Academic Integrity PolicyBaton Rouge Community College expects the highest standards ofacademic integrity from its students and faculty. Academic integrity isessential for equitable learning and assessment. Faculty and studentsshare equal responsibility in maintainingacademic honesty. Students must adhereto academic rules and regulations setby the college. All aspects of cheating,fabrication, plagiarism, misuse ofacademic resources, misrepresentation,violation of class rules, and complicityconstitute academic misconduct; anddisciplinary action will be taken by thecollege.Categories and Definitions of Academic DishonestyCheating is the intentional use of inappropriate and unauthorizedassistance, information, materials, or study aids; submitting multipleinformation on the same or part of the same work to differentinstructors for different assignments in the same semester or differentsemesters; receipt of unauthorized assistance, information, or materialsover a cellular telephone, electronic device, or other source fortests, quizzes, papers, projects, or other academic assignments; andcommitting an act of conspiracy for the purpose of defrauding.Fabrication is the misrepresentation of a signature or document as anoriginal and/or authentic copy. It is the contrivance of any part of anindividual or group assignment; falsification of an official document ofthe college or an outside agency such as Add/Drop or Excused Absenceslips; the submission of false medical documentation; the fabrication oralteration of data/results; the presentation of someone else’s results inexperiments or laboratory assignments; or the citation of sources thatare not used or have not been consulted.Plagiarism is using another’s idea(s), words, data, arguments, orsentence structure in academic assignments and claiming them as one’sown without proper documentation or citation.Misuse of Academic Resources prohibits students, faculty or staff from71