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THE UNCW STUDENT ACADEMIC HONOR CODE
POLICY 04.100 (Abbreviated)
I.
THE UNCW STUDENT ACADEMIC HONOR CODE
The University of North Carolina Wilmington is a
community of high academic standards where academic integrity is valued.
UNCW students are committed to honesty and truthfulness in academic
inquiry and in the pursuit of knowledge. This commitment begins when
new students matriculate at UNCW, continues as they create work of the
highest quality while part of the university community, and endures as a
core value throughout their lives.
II. THE UNCW HONOR PLEDGE
All students enrolled at UNCW are subject to the UNCW Student Academic Honor Code (hereafter referred to as the Honor Code), which is intended to help every member of the UNCW community appreciate the high value placed on academic integrity and the means that will be employed to ensure its preservation. Students are expected to perpetuate a campus culture where each student does his or her own work while relying on appropriate resources for assistance. In such a climate students enjoy a special trust that they are members of a unique community where one’s thoughts and words are attributed correctly and with proper ownership, and where there is little need for systems to sanction those who cheat. As such, all UNCW students shall commit to the principles and spirit of the Honor Code by adhering to the following pledge:
“As a student at The University of North Carolina Wilmington, I am committed to honesty and truthfulness in academic inquiry and in the pursuit of knowledge.
I pledge to uphold and promote the UNCW Student Academic Honor Code.”
III. GUIDELINES IN SUPPORT OF THE HONOR CODE
Disciplinary action will ensue when students fail
to align themselves with the ideals and expectations outlined in the
Honor Code. The following guidelines are designed to educate students
about the types of academic dishonesty, the roles that the university
community has in upholding the Honor Code, the procedures used to report
and adjudicate alleged offenses, and the limitations on withdrawals and
repeating courses in the event of academic dishonesty. Because the
university takes a holistic approach to addressing student misconduct,
both of an academic and non-academic nature, incidents involving
students with prior findings of responsibility for academic dishonesty
or serious non-academic misconduct (typically denoted by the status of
“disciplinary probation”) will be referred to the Academic Honor Board.
A. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY OFFENSES
No form of academic dishonesty is tolerated in our
community. Academic dishonesty is broadly defined as attaining academic
goals by deception, and includes but is not limited to attempted or
completed offenses as follows:
1. CHEATING
Cheating is deception implying that work in fulfillment of course or degree requirements represents a student’s own level of knowledge when it actually does not. Common examples of cheating include:
a. Any conduct during a program, course, quiz or examination which involves the unauthorized use of written or oral information, or information obtained by any other means of communication. Students are expected to consult with their instructors for clarification on whether assignments may be conducted jointly with other students, and whether they may submit a paper previously written and submitted as work in another class. In the absence of approval for joint work, the expectation is that students will conduct their own work and research both outside and within the classroom environment (not including authorized assistance and sanctioned university resources such as the University Learning Center).
b. The unauthorized acquisition, buying, selling, trading or theft of any examination, quiz, term paper or project.
c. The unauthorized use of any electronic or mechanical device during any program, course, quiz or examination, or in connection with laboratory reports or other materials related to academic performance.
d. The unauthorized use of laboratory reports, term reports, theses, or written materials in whole or in part.
e. The unauthorized assistance or collaboration on any test, assignment, or project.
f. The unauthorized use by a student of another person’s work, or the falsification of any other person’s work, or writing another person’s work for them to submit.
g. Bribery, including but not limited to the offering, giving, receiving or soliciting of any consideration in order to obtain a grade or other treatment not otherwise earned by the student through his/her own academic performance.
h. Any form of lying or furnishing
false information to a professor, administrator or staff member acting
in performance of their duties (including taking an exam for another
student).
2. PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is the copying of language, phrasing, structure, or specific ideas of another and presenting any of these as one’s own work, including information found on the Internet. Common examples of plagiarism include but are not limited to:
a. Reproducing someone else’s work without quotation marks or proper attribution and submitting it as your own.
b. Paraphrasing or summarizing another’s work without attribution or acknowledgement of the source and submitting it as your own.
c. Deliberate attribution to a source from which the referenced material was not in fact derived.
d. Failing to cite a source for ideas or information.