Academic integrity involves a student’s obligation to act with honesty and to respect the rights of others in carrying out all academic assignments, including regularly assigned homework, written reports, and laboratory reports. Students are expected to exhibit this quality at all times. The University policy concerning academic dishonesty will be strictly adhered to in all courses, including the laboratory and lecture components. Violations of this policy include:

• Plagiarism or representing the work of another as one’s own work.
• Preparing work for another that is to be used as that person’s own work.
• Cheating by any method or means.
• Knowingly falsifying or manufacturing scientific or educational data and representing the same to be the result of scientific or scholarly research.
• Knowingly furnishing false information to a university official relative to academic matters.
• Soliciting, aiding, abetting, concealing, or attempting conduct in violation of this policy.

Any violation of this policy will result in immediate failure of the course, conduct board penalties, or both. If you have any questions about whether a particular behavior is in violation of the University’s policy, you should ask before proceeding.