ADMINISTRATIVE
POLICY AND PROCEDURES REGARDING STUDENT CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM
Condensed
Version
For complete policy and procedure go to www.kent.edu/policyregister 3342-3-01.8.
Cheating and plagiarism constitute fraudulent
misrepresentation for which no credit can be given and for which appropriate
sanctions are warranted and will be applied.
The university affirms that acts of cheating and
plagiarism by students constitute a subversion of the goals of the institution,
have no place in the university and are serious offenses to academic goals and
objectives, as well as to the rights of fellow students.
"Cheat" means to intentionally misrepresent
the source, nature, or other conditions of academic work so as to accrue
undeserved credit, or to cooperate with someone else in such misrepresentation.
Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
1. Obtaining or retaining partial or whole copies of
examinations, tests or quizzes before these are distributed for student use;
2. Using notes, textbooks or other information in
examinations, tests and quizzes, except as expressly permitted;
3. Obtaining confidential information about examinations, tests or quizzes other than that released by
the instructor;
4. Securing, giving or exchanging information during examinations;
5. Presenting data or other material gathered by
another person or group as one's own;
6. Falsifying experimental data or information;
7. Having another person take
one's place for any academic performance without the specific knowledge and permission
of the
instructor;
8. Cooperating with another to do one or more of the
above;
9. Using a substantial portion of a piece of work
previously submitted for another course or program to
meet the requirements
of the present course or program without notifying the
instructor to whom the work is presented; and
10. Presenting falsified information in
order to postpone or avoid examinations, tests, quizzes, or other academic
work.
“Plagiarize” means to take and present as one’s own a
material portion of the ideas or words of another or to present as one’s own an
idea or work derived from an existing source without full and proper credit to
the source of the ideas, words, or works. As defined, plagiarize includes, but
is not limited to:
a. The copying of words, sentences and paragraphs
directly from the work of another without proper credit;
b. The copying of illustrations, figures, photographs,
drawings, models, or other visual and nonverbal materials, including recordings
of another without proper credit; and
c. The presentation of work prepared by another in
final or draft form as one's own without citing the source, such as the use of
purchased research papers.
Academic Sanctions
The following academic sanctions are provided by this
rule for offenses of cheating or plagiarism.
1. Refuse to accept the work for credit; or
2. Assign a grade of "F" or zero for the
project, test, paper, examination or other work in which the cheating or
plagiarism took
place; or
3. Assign a grade of "F" for the course in
which the cheating or plagiarism took place; and/or;
4. Recommend to the department chair or regional campus
dean that further action specified in the rule be taken. The
department chairperson or regional campus dean shall
determine whether or not to forward to the academic dean or to the
vice president for the extended university a recommendation
for further sanction under this rule.
Academic Appeals
The general principle that applies to the following
procedures is that an appeal is directed to the administrative level
immediately above the unit from which the appeal emanates.
Appeals are limited to the following reasons:
a. The decision is arbitrary or unreasonable,
b. The decision resulted from a procedural error,
c. The decision is not in accordance with the facts
presented,
d. New information is available which may suggest
modification of the decision.
For complete policy and procedure go to www.kent.edu/policyregister 3342-3-01.8.