SEAS Student Handbook 2020-2021

bibliographies. Faculty members are available to help as questions arise about proper
citations, references, and the appropriateness of group work on assignments. You can
also check with the Undergraduate Writing Program. Another option is to connect with
Research Librarians for citation management workshops. Information on these
workshops is posted online on the Columbia Libraries website. Undergraduate students
can also meet with the Director of Academic Integrity to review citation styles or discuss
questions about academic integrity by emailing ugrad-integrity@columbia.edu.
Ignorance of proper citation methods does not exonerate one from responsibility.
Personal Responsibility, Finding Support, and More Information
A student’s education at Columbia University is comprised of two complementary
components: a mastery over intellectual material within a discipline and the overall
development of moral character and personal ethics. Participating in forms of
academic dishonesty violates the standards of our community at Columbia and
severely inhibits a student’s chance to grow academically, professionally, and socially.
As such, Columbia’s approach to academic integrity is informed by its explicit belief
that students must take full responsibility for their actions, meaning you will need to
make informed choices inside and outside the classroom. Columbia offers a wealth of
resources to help students make sound decisions regarding academics, extracurricular
activities, and personal issues.
Undergraduate students should consult an advising dean or meet with the Director of
Academic Integrity in Suite 601 of Lerner Hall. Graduate students should consult or meet
their assistant dean in the Office of Graduate Student Affairs in Suite 530 in Mudd.
Academic Integrity Policies and Expectations
Violations of policy may be intentional or unintentional and may include dishonesty in
academic assignments or in dealing with University officials, including faculty and staff
members. Moreover, dishonesty during the Dean’s Discipline hearing process may result
in more serious consequences.
Types of academic integrity violations:
• Academic Dishonesty, Facilitation of: assisting another student in a violation of
academic integrity is prohibited. This may include but is not limited to selling
and/or providing notes, exams, and papers.
• Assistance, Unauthorized Giving: unauthorized assistance to another student or
receiving unauthorized aid from another person on tests, quizzes, assignments, or
examinations without the instructor's express permission is prohibited.
• Bribery: offering or giving any favor or thing of value for the purpose of
improperly influencing a grade or other evaluation of a student in an academic
program is prohibited.
• Cheating: wrongfully using or attempting to use unauthorized materials,
information, study aids, or the ideas or work of another in order to gain an unfair
advantage is prohibited. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, using or
consulting unauthorized materials or using unauthorized equipment or devices
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