SEAS Student Handbook
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Research Librarians for citation management workshops. Information on these<br />
workshops is posted online on the Columbia Libraries website. <strong>Student</strong>s can also meet<br />
with the Director of Academic Integrity to review citation styles at<br />
ugradintegrity@columbia.edu. Ignorance of proper citation methods does not exonerate<br />
one from responsibility.<br />
Personal Responsibility, Finding Support, and More Information<br />
A student’s education at Columbia University is comprised of two complementary<br />
components: a mastery over intellectual material within a discipline and the overall<br />
development of moral character and personal ethics. Participating in forms of academic<br />
dishonesty violates the standards of our community at Columbia and severely inhibits a<br />
student’s chance to grow academically, professionally, and socially. As such, Columbia’s<br />
approach to academic integrity is informed by its explicit belief that students must take<br />
full responsibility for their actions, meaning you will need to make informed choices<br />
inside and outside the classroom. Columbia offers a wealth of resources to help students<br />
make sound decisions regarding academics, extracurricular activities, and personal issues.<br />
Undergraduate students should consult an advising dean or meet with the Director of<br />
Academic Integrity in Suite 601 of Lerner Hall.<br />
Academic Integrity Policies and Expectations<br />
Violations of policy may be intentional or unintentional and may include dishonesty in<br />
academic assignments or in dealing with University officials, including faculty and staff<br />
members. Moreover, dishonesty during the Dean’s Discipline hearing process may result<br />
in more serious consequences.<br />
Types of academic integrity violations:<br />
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Academic Dishonesty, Facilitation of: assisting another student in a violation of<br />
academic integrity is prohibited. This may include but is not limited to selling<br />
and/or providing notes, exams, and papers.<br />
Assistance, Unauthorized Giving: unauthorized assistance to another student or<br />
receiving unauthorized aid from another person on tests, quizzes, assignments, or<br />
examinations without the instructor's express permission is prohibited.<br />
Bribery: offering or giving any favor or thing of value for the purpose of improperly<br />
influencing a grade or other evaluation of a student in an academic program is<br />
prohibited.<br />
Cheating: wrongfully using or attempting to use unauthorized materials,<br />
information, study aids, or the ideas or work of another in order to gain an unfair<br />
advantage is prohibited. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, using or consulting<br />
unauthorized materials or using unauthorized equipment or devices on tests, quizzes,<br />
assignments, or examinations, working on any examination, text, quiz, or<br />
assignment outside the time constraints imposed, the unauthorized use of<br />
prescription medication to enhance academic performance, and /or submitting an<br />
altered examination or assignment to an instructor for regrading.<br />
Collaboration, Unauthorized: collaborating on academic work without the<br />
instructor's permission is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to,<br />
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