Axe ’Em, Jacks!
Academic integrity violations are categorized into four levels with appropriate sanction guidelines for each.
Level One Violations
- Reasonable to conclude that the student's behavior was a result of inexperience with academic integrity principles and policies (for example, a first-semester student).
- Violation was minor or occurred on an assignment that was worth a small portion of the student's course grade.
View examples of Level One violations and sanctions.
Level Two Violations
- Actions are dishonest in character.
- Impact a more significant amount of the assignment or course grade.
View examples of Level Two violations and sanctions.
Level Three Violations
- Actions are more flagrantly dishonest in character.
- Impact a major or essential portion of the course work.
- Involves planning and deliberation.
View examples of Level Three violations and sanctions.
Level Four Violations
- Actions are flagrantly dishonest.
- Serious breaches of profession and personal integrity.
Level One
Examples include, but aren't limited to:
- Scholarly negligence, or an incorrectly executed citation in an otherwise properly cited paper.
- Copying one answer on a minor homework assignment.
- Engaging in collaboration on an assignment even when the rules weren't clear.
Sanctions
Students are likely to:
- receive an official warning
- write a reflection paper
- have one assignment's grade reduced by one letter grade
- or be mandated to attend an Academic Integrity Seminar or another educational workshop.
Level Two
Examples include, but aren't limited to:
- Copying homework, assignments or labs from others.
- Collaborating with others on an independent assignment when guidelines explicitly forbid it.
- Submitting a portion of the same material in more than one course without prior authorization.
- Possession of unauthorized materials for assignments.
- Providing another student with one’s own assignment, paper, exam or quiz.
- Signing in another student for class attendance or participation marks.
- Making lab data available to a student who did not attend the lab.
- Plagiarism, or limited copying and pasting from secondary sources without citation.
- Possession or provision of unauthorized aids (for example, cheat sheets, cell phone, class notes) when it cannot be determined if used.
- "Panic" copying of one answer from another student during an exam or quiz.
- Allowing another student to copy during an exam.
Sanctions
Students are likely to:
- write a reflection paper
- have their grade reduced for an assignment or the course
- be mandated to attend an Academic Integrity Seminar or another educational workshop
- or another sanction as deemed appropriate under the circumstances.
Level Three
Examples include, but aren't limited to:
- Copying a significant portion of or an entire assignment.
- Splitting up independent assignments with others and copying parts from each other.
- Providing another student with an assignment or homework when provision was explicitly prohibited by course or university policies.
- Submitting substantially (for example, a larger percentage of the paper/assignment) the same material in more than one course without prior authorization.
- Plagiarism, or extensive copying and pasting from secondary sources without attribution.
- Possession and use of unauthorized aid during a test or assignment.
- Extensive copying during an exam or quiz.
- Allowing another student to extensively copy during an exam or quiz.
- Altering a grade exam or test for re-grade.
- Fabricating a citation in a paper.
- Fabricating data for a lab or research paper.
- Presenting a false excuse to miss an assignment, test or exam, class, etc. or to receive unfair accommodation.
Sanctions
Students are likely to:
- be suspended for at least six months
- be placed on academic conduct probation
- be mandated to attend an Academic Integrity Seminar or some other educational workshop
- write a reflection paper
- have their course grade reduced with option that grade cannot be replaced by retaking class
- receive a failing grade or reduction of course grade
- or another sanction as deemed appropriate under the circumstance.
Level Four
Examples include, but aren't limited to:
- Any second violation of the policy, especially after a student has already been suspended.
- Any level of violation committed by a graduate student.
- Taking an exam for another person (or vice versa).
- Stealing or fraudulently obtaining answers or an advance copy of an exam.
- Changing/helping to change any record assignment or course grade on instructor or university record.
- Submitting an entire paper or assignment written by another person.
- Replacing the name on another's assignment and handing it in as one's own.
- Forging documentation, for example, medical or government document.
- Selling or distributing previously administered/taken exams, papers and other assignments.
Sanctions
Students are likely to:
- be suspended for at least one calendar year
- be expelled, which is permanent separation from institution
- be placed on academic conduct probation
- have their course grade reduced with option that grade cannot be replaced by retaking class
- receive a failing grade with option that grade cannot be replaced by retaking class
- be mandated to attend an Academic Integrity Seminar or another educational workshop
- write a reflective paper
- be denied their degree
- be barred from readmission
- have their degree or diploma revoked
- or another sanction as deemed appropriate under the circumstances.