Academic Honesty at Granite State College

For complete policy, see Granite State College Catalog, p.102.

Academic Honesty Policy
Joining an academic community is a privilege with a long and honored history. All who join the community share in this history and, as in any community, all are charged with maintaining the integrity and standards of the academy. A primary function of this community is to stimulate scholarship that creates new knowledge or verifies existing knowledge. Academic dishonesty, therefore, seriously undermines the integrity of the academic community and interferes with this quest for knowledge. Such dishonesty hurts everyone. In particular, learners who cheat diminish the value of their education and weaken their prospects for future academic successes. Our policies emphasize the seriousness of academic dishonesty and give faculty some options for handling violations of these standards. Faculty and learners have a joint responsibility to ensure the integrity of the academic experience.

Definitions
To ensure learners, faculty, and staff are operating within common guidelines, the following definitions of academic dishonesty are provided:

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is defined as submitting or presenting another person's words and/or ideas as if they were your own. This includes the use of the published or unpublished work of another person-either by paraphrasing or by copying word-for-word-without giving full and clear acknowledgement of where the words or ideas originated.

Cheating: Cheating involves turning n work that is not your own, as in giving, receiving, or using assistance not sanctioned by the instructor on exams, quizzes, projects, written assignments, and so forth. Another form of cheating is turning in the same work for more than one course when the faculty members involved have not given their explicit permission to do so.

Policy: Plagiarism and cheating are unacceptable in any form. They are serious violations of academic honesty and will not be tolerated by the College. Learners who engage in such activities will be subject to serious disciplinary action.