Policy 6220D

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Effective Date
December 1968 
Last Revision Date
December 2025 
Policy Owner
Chief Academic Officer 
Additional Authority
Internal: Policy 5420D

1. Policy & Purpose 

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity and ethical conduct. A violation of academic integrity is a violation of the College’s standards for student conduct and shall result in disciplinary action. 

Last Review Date: December 2025

History
Adopted: December 31, 1968
Adopted: June 26, 1986
Revised: June 24, 1999
Revised: August 11, 2016
Reformatted: December 15, 2022
Revised: December 11, 2025

Procedure 6220D

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Effective Date
December 1968 
Last Revision Date
December 2025 
Procedure Owner
Chief Academic Officer 
Additional Authority
Internal: Policy 5420D

1. Procedure

Students found violating academic integrity standards shall be disciplined. Consequences may include failing an assignment or dismissal from a class, program, or the College. Students retain the right to due process and, therefore, may appeal the decision through the Student Rights: Due Process Policy 5430B. 

All violations of academic integrity standards are initially handled at the discretion of the instructor. If an instructor determines that a student has violated academic integrity standards, the instructor can determine an appropriate consequence. These consequences may include: 

  • Giving the student a grade of “F” for the assignment in question,
  • Giving the student a final grade of “F” for that course and dismissing the student from the course. 

A student may also be dismissed from a program. This consequence is limited to programs, where students deal with the safety and well-being of themselves and others and that have specific rules and procedures related to dismissal included in the program’s student handbook. If the program’s student handbook allows dismissal from a program for violating academic integrity standards, a student may be dismissed. 

Students who have violated academic integrity standards more than once may be expelled from the College. Faculty are strongly encouraged to report violations of academic integrity standards through the reporting form on the College’s website. 

Violations of Academic Integrity standards include but are not necessarily limited to: 

Cheating 

  • Submission of work that is not the student’s own for papers, assignments or exams
  • Submission of falsified data
  • Theft of, or unauthorized access to, an exam
  • Use of an alternate, stand-in or proxy during an exam
  • Use of, or supplying, material or technology including textbooks, notes, computer programs, calculators, computers, or cell phones in the preparation of an assignment or during an exam, in direct conflict with an assignment
  • Unauthorized collaboration in preparation of an assignment. Each student is responsible for understanding the policies of the instructor offering any course regarding the amount of help and collaboration permitted or required in preparation of assignments. 

Plagiarism: 


Plagiarism is knowingly representing the words or ideas of another, published or unpublished, as one’s own in any academic exercise or activity. It is the failure to properly denote the original material with quotation marks and/or include the appropriate citation if any of the following are reproduced in the work submitted by a student: 

  • A phrase, written or musical,
  • A graphic element,
  • A proof,
  • Specific language,
  • An idea derived from the work, published or unpublished, of another person. 

 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Usage 

The instructor of record for each course retains the autonomy to adopt an AI usage policy for that course. The instructor must state the AI policy for each course in the course syllabus, and consequences for violating the policy must be clearly defined. Possible usage policies include, but are not limited to: 

No use policy: Generative AI may not be used on any assignment in this course. 

Limited use policy: Generative AI and other AI solutions may be used to help develop theses, ideas, and outlines, but it may not be used to write assessments for students in this course. All work submitted by students in this course must be written by the students, not Generative AI or other AI solutions.  

Unlimited use policy: Students are allowed to use Generative AI solutions on all aspects of all assessments within this course with the expectation that students will protect themselves and their personal information. 

Last Review Date: December 2025

History
Adopted: December 31, 1968
Adopted: June 26, 1986
Revised: June 24, 1999
Revised: August 11, 2016
Reformatted: December 15, 2022
Revised: December 11, 2025