Victory University 2012-2013 Academic Catalog

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY POLICY
Whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has
done has been through God. —John 3:21 (NIV)
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
Academic Dishonesty is defined as any deliberate action taken to falsify material such as
information, data, or other materials related to an individual's participation in coursework,
laboratory work, or other academic activities.
Categories of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to:
• Plagiarism. A deliberate representation of another person’s work or ideas as though that
work resulted from the student’s own efforts. Examples: failing to acknowledge sources used
in a research project; inventing or falsifying citations; failing to delimit quotations with
quotation marks; or failure to identify paraphrasing with an accepted form of citation.
Plagiarized material can be written, spoken, drawn, painted, or photographed and can come
from any source, including the internet. Plagiarism also includes buying or otherwise obtaining
materials to be used fraudulently.
• Falsification. Falsely accounting for how research sources were collected. Examples:
misleading readers about sources of information; altering or misrepresenting one’s own
academic record or that of another student; taking an exam for another student; preparing or
submitting work on behalf of another student; signing another student’s name.
• Obtaining Unfair Advantage. Examples: obtaining access to examinations or related material
without consent of the instructor; collaborating with other students or with persons off
campus on an assignment without authorization; providing copies of questions or answers
from exams to other students; interfering with or intentionally misleading another student in
pursuit of academic work.
• Multiple Submissions. Examples: submitting work prepared for one class to fulfill part or all of
an assignment in another class without the consent of the instructor.
• Cheating. Examples: referring to unauthorized material during an exam; modifying one’s
answers on an exam once the exam has ended; permitting another person to see answers at
any time—either before or during an exam; letting someone else prepare work in one’s behalf
then submitting it as one’s own original work.
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