Edgewood College Academic
Honesty Policy
As members of a scholarly community dedicated to healthy intellectual
development, students and faculty at Edgewood College are expected to share the
responsibility for maintaining high standards of honesty and integrity in their
academic work. Each student should reflect this sense of responsibility toward
the community by submitting work that is a product of his or her own effort in a
particular course, unless the instructor has directed otherwise. In order to
clarify and emphasize its standards for academic honesty, the College has
adopted this policy:
The following are examples of violations of standards for academic honesty
and are subject to academic sanctions: Cheating on exams; submitting
collaborative work as one's own; falsifying records, achievements, field or
laboratory data, or other course work; stealing examinations or course
materials; submitting work previously submitted in another course, unless
specifically approved by the present instructor; falsifying documents or signing
an instructor's or administrator's name to any document or form; plagiarism*; or
aiding another student in any of the above actions.
*Plagiarism, which is defined as the deliberate use of another's ideas or
words or images as if they were one's own, can take many forms, from the
egregious to the mild. Instances most commonly seen in work by students in order
from most to least serious are: 1. borrowing, buying, or stealing another
person's work for one's own use; lending or selling one's own work for another's
use as his or her own; 2. getting so much help on a work from someone else,
including a college tutor, that the student can no longer legitimately claim to
be the author/creator; 3. intentionally using source material** improperly,
e.g., neither citing nor using quotation marks on borrowed materials; supplying
an in-text citation but failing to enclose quoted material within quotation
marks; leaving paraphrased material too close to the original version; failing
to give credit to the original author/creator as the source of an idea, image,
or paraphrased material; failing to provide a list of works cited or misusing
borrowed sources through ignorance or carelessness.
**Source material can include ideas, words or images from any source in any
format (including books, newspapers, journals, magazines, pamphlets, interviews,
video and internet sites). The student's "work" can include written
essays, oral presentations, art work, lab experiments--any ideas, words or
images in any format (written, graphic, electronic, etc.).
Academic Sanctions: Since cheating occurs in a specific context,
penalties for specific violations of standards for academic honesty are
difficult to stipulate in advance. Certain violations, such as stealing and
plagiarizing, involve legal as well as ethical concerns, and therefore sanctions
for these will generally be more severe. Sanctions enforced by the instructor
may include: reducing an assignment grade, reducing a course grade, assigning
additional work, and/or referring the violation to the Associate Academic Dean
for appropriate action.
A student has the right to appeal any sanctions that result from an alleged
violation of standards for academic honesty. Such appeals should follow
established academic appeals procedures.
Note: The Edgewood College "Academic Honesty
Policy" is taken from the Edgewood College 1999-2000 Student Handbook,
pages 45-46.
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