Academic Honesty 

Learning is built on the fundamental qualities of honesty, fairness, respect and trust.  At Chemeketa Community College, academic integrity is a shared endeavor characterized by truth, personal responsibility and high academic standards.  Any violation of academic integrity devalues the individual and the community as a whole.

Definitions
Violations of academic honesty include but are not limited to the following:

 Plagiarism
·        presenting someone else’s words, ideas, artistry, product or data as one’s own
·        presenting as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source 

Collusion/Inappropriate Assistance
·        helping another commit an act of academic dishonesty
·        knowingly or negligently allowing work to be used by others.  It is a violation of Oregon state law to create and offer to sell part or all of an educational assignment to another person (ORS 1.65.114)

 Cheating
·        an act of deceit, fraud, distortion of truth or improper use of another person’s effort to obtain an educational advantage
·        includes but is not limited to unauthorized access to examination materials prior to the examination itself

 Fabrication/Falsification/Alteration
·        intentional misrepresentation, invention, exaggeration or alteration of information or data, whether written, verbalized or demonstrated

 Unauthorized Multiple Submission
·        using any work previously submitted for credit without prior instructor permission

Sabotage and Tampering
·        intentional altering or interfering with documents or other student’s work
·        intentional depriving others of academic resources

4/6/04