Academic Misconduct
Academic misconduct is governed by state law, UW System Administration Code Chapter 14. For further information on this law, what constitutes academic misconduct, and procedures related to academic misconduct, see:
The Graduate School
Academic Policies & Procedures: Misconduct, Academic
Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards
Academic misconduct is an act in which a student (UWS 14.03(1)):
- Seeks to claim credit for the work or efforts of another without authorization or citation
- Uses unauthorized materials or fabricated data in any academic exercise
- Forges or falsifies academic documents or records
- Intentionally impedes or damages the academic work of others
- Engages in conduct aimed at making false representation of a student’s academic performance
- Assists other students in any of these acts
Examples of academic misconduct include but are not limited to:
- Cutting and pasting text from the Web without quotation marks or proper citation
- Paraphrasing from the Web without crediting the source
- Using notes or a programmable calculator in an exam when such use is not allowed
- Using another person’s ideas, words, or research and presenting it as one’s own by not properly crediting the originator
- Stealing examinations or course materials
- Changing or creating data in a lab experiment
- Altering a transcript
- Signing another person’s name to an attendance sheet
- Hiding a book knowing that another student needs it to prepare for an assignment
- Collaboration that is contrary to the stated rules of the course
- Tampering with a lab experiment or computer program of another student.