Minutes of a Regular Meeting, June 22-23, 2004 - Digital Collections

REGENTS’ POLICY MANUALSECTION 2—ACADEMICSin order to assure timely review of cases. An AMB may be assisted by a non-voting faculty or staffperson appointed by the dean of the college who shall exercise responsibility for the AMB inadministrative matters, such as scheduling cases, providing notification of hearings and decisions, andmaintaining records.The Health Sciences Center and Norman Campus Faculty Handbooks and the Student Code ofResponsibility and Conduct for the Norman Campus include the provisions regarding academicmisconduct and the policies on reporting academic misconduct, academic misconduct hearings,penalties, and sanctions.1. GENERAL PROVISIONS1.1 BASIC PRINCIPLE OF HONESTYHonesty is a fundamental precept in all academic activities, and those privileged to be membersof a university community have a special obligation to observe the highest standards of honestyand a right to expect the same standards of all others. Academic misconduct in any form isinimical to the purposes and functions of the university and therefore is unacceptable andrigorously proscribed.1.2 DEFINITIONS1.2.1 Academic Misconduct. Any act which improperly affects the evaluation of a student’s academicperformance or achievement. The following terms illustrate but do not delimit or defineacademic misconduct:(a)(b)Cheating: the use of unauthorized materials, methods, or information in any academicexercise, including improper collaboration;Plagiarism: the representation of the words or ideas of another as one’s own, including:(1) direct quotation without both attribution and indication that the material is beingdirectly quoted, e.g. quotation marks;(2) paraphrase without attribution;(3) paraphrase with or without attribution where the wording of the original remainssubstantially intact and is represented as the author’s own;(4) expression in one’s own words, but without attribution, of ideas, arguments, linesof reasoning, facts, processes, or other products of the intellect where suchmaterial is learned from the work of another and is not part of the general fund ofcommon academic knowledge;(c)(d)Fabrication: the falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academicexercise;Fraud: the falsification, forgery, or misrepresentation of academic work, including theresubmission of work performed for one class for credit in another class without theinformed permission of the second instructor; or the falsification, forgery ormisrepresentation of other academic records or documents, including admissionsmaterials and transcripts; or the communication of false or misleading statements toobtain academic advantage or to avoid academic penalty;THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 90