An academic community must operate with complete openness, honesty and integrity.  Responsibility for maintaining this atmosphere lies with the students, faculty and administration.  Therefore, the achievement of personal and academic goals through dishonest means will not be tolerated. 

 Cheating is the unauthorized use or exchange of information before or during a quiz, test or semester examination.  Unauthorized collaboration on a class assignment, submitting the same work in two courses without the professor’s permission, and buying or selling work for a course are also forms of cheating.  Plagiarism is the representation of words or ideas of others as one’s own.  The various forms of plagiarism include but are not limited to copying homework; falsifying lab reports; submitting papers containing material written by another person; and failing to document in one’s written assignment words and ideas secured from publications.