Academic honesty is a fundamental principle of learning and professional development. The integrity of the University’s graduate programs requires honesty in scholarship, professional activities and relationships, and research. Therefore, academic honesty is required of all students at Assumption University.
Academic dishonesty threatens and undermines the University’s mission to pursue the truth and form graduates for thoughtful citizenship and compassionate service. All members of the University community have a responsibility to uphold and maintain an honest academic environment and to report when dishonesty occurs. Written or other work that students submit must be the product of their own efforts and must be consistent with appropriate standards of professional ethics. Academic dishonesty, which includes cheating, plagiarism and other forms of dishonest or unethical behavior, is prohibited. Where suspected violations of the academic honesty policy occur, appropriate procedures are designed to protect the integrity of the academic process while ensuring due process.
Academic Dishonesty includes any of the following:
Cheating - using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices in any academic exercise. This definition includes unauthorized communication of information during an academic exercise. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is forbidden unless explicitly allowed by the instructor.
Plagiarism - presenting the work of another as one’s own (i.e., without proper acknowledgment of the source). The sole exception to the requirement of acknowledging sources is when the ideas, information, etc., are common knowledge. The use if AI to create a written or oral product, either in whole or in part, is a form of plagiarism unless the instructor explicitly permits its use for the assigned work and the use of AI is acknowledged in the product.
Complicity in Academic Dishonesty - helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
Fabrication and Falsification - alteration or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise. Falsification is a matter of altering information, while fabrication is a matter of inventing or counterfeiting information to use in any academic exercise.
Multiple Submissions - the submission of substantial portions of the same academic work (including oral reports) for credit more than once without authorization.
Collaboration on an assignment or project, unless required or explicitly permitted by the professor.