Graduate Curriculum Committee - zicklin : school of business - CUNY

Academic Integrity:
Baruch College’s Policy on Academic Dishonesty can be found on the college website at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/academic/academic_honesty.html. I fully support this policy,
which states, in part:
Academic dishonesty is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Cheating, forgery, plagiarism
and collusion in dishonest acts undermine the college’s educational mission and the students'
personal and intellectual growth. Baruch students are expected to bear individual
responsibility for their work, to learn the rules and definitions that underlie the practice of
academic integrity, and to uphold its ideals. Ignorance of the rules is not an acceptable excuse
for disobeying them. Any student who attempts to compromise or devalue the academic
process will be sanctioned.
The Baruch College website goes on to explain the concept of plagiarism as follows:
Plagiarism is the act of presenting another person’s ideas, research or writing as your own:
• Copying another person’s actual words without the use of quotation marks and footnotes.
• Presenting another person’s ideas or theories in your own words without acknowledging
them.
• Using information that is not considered common knowledge without acknowledging the
source.
• Failure to acknowledge collaborators on homework and laboratory assignments.
The Library has a plagiarism tutorial on its website. I strongly suggest that you complete the
tutorial: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/help/plagiarism/Index.htm.
IF YOU ARE STILL IN DOUBT, DON’T DO IT!
Any act of plagiarism or academic dishonesty with regards to your work in this course will
result in a failing grade in the course. Furthermore, a full report of any academic
dishonesty or plagiarism will be made to the appropriate College authorities.