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 College, 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:
2. Cheating: Cheating includes, but is not limited to, the following actions:
Unauthorized distribution or uploading of Walsh College copyrighted materials to any non-Walsh College website, including but not limited to:
Damage, destruction, or modification to Walsh College computers/servers/printers including but not limited to:
3. Misrepresentation or Deception: This includes intentionally lying to, deceiving, or bribing a member of Walsh’s faculty, staff, administration, or outside agency in order to gain academic advantage for oneself or another; or to misrepresent or in other ways interfere with the investigation of a charge of academic misconduct.