Academic Misconduct Standards

If any administrator, faculty, staff or student body member suspects a student of engaging in academic misconduct, that person must report it to the Academic Conduct Committee. Academic misconduct is defined as any act of commission or omission by a student designed to affect the grade of that student or another student, where such act is unfair, unethical, or outside of the rules of Walsh, the rules set by the academic department, or by a classroom instructor (for the instructor’s course).

Academic Misconduct includes but is not limited to:

1. Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the use of another’s work, words, ideas or images without properly citing the source and thereby representing this work as one’s own, whether the representation is oral or written, expressed or implied. Examples include:
   • Failure to give credit for work (including ideas and materials) taken from other sources (public or private), including quoting, paraphrasing, rephrasing or condensing that work
   • The submission of one’s academic work from a previous course without prior written approval of the current instructor
   • Using graphics, graphs, images, tables or other illustrative work without giving credit to the original source
   • Using materials that were assembled by or collected by others without acknowledging their contribution
   • Contributing to another student’s work or helping another to plagiarize
2. Cheating: Cheating includes, but is not limited to, the following actions in regards to coursework:
   • Unauthorized collusion on coursework, including two or more students working together to prepare and submit the same or substantially similar coursework, or portions of coursework, without the specific consent of the instructor
   • Sharing of completed or partially completed coursework which includes, but is not limited to, examinations, quizzes, homework exercises, projects, presentations, discussion boards, papers or other assignments, except where expressly allowed by an instructor for a particular course
   • Use of unauthorized aids while completing coursework
   • Failure to follow administrative instructions on exam-taking or other assessment procedures
   • Completing coursework, including taking an examination, for another student or asking or paying someone else to do the same
   • Allowing another person to access online coursework to review, copy, submit, or complete that coursework
   • The theft, sale, purchase, unauthorized procurement or possession of examinations or other coursework (or any attempt to do so)
   • Copying another student’s work

   Unauthorized distribution or uploading of copyrighted materials, including but not limited to:

   • Any portion of course content such as, lectures, presentations, videos, assignments, examination or quiz questions, etc.
   • Library materials subject to copyright whether or not noted as “do not copy.”
   • Copying of library materials designated “do not copy”

   Damage, destruction or modification to Walsh computers/servers/printers including but not limited to:

   • Copying, modifying or removing software
   • Unauthorized uploading of computer software and/or introducing a virus or malware
3. Misrepresentation or Deception: This includes intentionally lying to or deceiving a member of Walsh’s faculty, staff, administration, or outside agency in order to gain academic advantage for one’s self or another; or to misrepresent or in other ways interfere with the investigation of a charge of academic misconduct.