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Academic Dishonesty

Enterprise State Community College regards academic dishonesty as a serious offense against the integrity of the educational process. In particular, the College recognizes the following forms of academic dishonesty as matters for disciplinary action:

Cheating - In any act of cheating, a student attempts to use dishonest measures to gain an academic advantage over other students and/or be awarded a grade on some basis other than his/her own effort, knowledge, or skill in the subject being evaluated. Common examples include, but are not limited to, the unauthorized use of materials, information, or study aids during a quiz or examination, copying answers from another student, and copying computer files. In cases in which a student knowingly allows another student to copy from his/her work, both the student who copies such work and the student who allows the copying to occur are guilty of cheating.

Plagiarism - The College distinguishes between three types of plagiarism-blatant, inadvertent, and self-plagiarism.

  1. Blatant plagiarism is the act of using the words and/or work of another author and attempting to pass it as one's own work. Examples of blatant plagiarism include, but are not limited to, a student submitting, under his/her own name, an essay, report, research paper, computer code, or some other assignment which has been written or created in part or in whole by another person or by a computer program. Blatant plagiarism demonstrates a pattern of deception by failing to document appropriately and accurately.
  2. Inadvertent plagiarism involves the unintentional and occasional absence of quotation marks or documentation or the occasional miscitation. Inadvertent plagiarism does not indicate a pattern of deception or carelessness in the documentation of the assignment as a whole.
  3. Self-plagiarism is the resubmission of academic work that has previously been submitted to another class when such submission is made without authorization.

Fabrication - Fabrication occurs when a student presents as genuine any invented or manufactured citation, data, or material. Fabrication includes, but is not limited to, unauthorized use of Al-generated content.

Facilitation - In facilitating, a student assists, knowingly helps, supports, conspires, or colludes with others to engage in any form of academic dishonesty, including but not limited to two or more students who work together to produce individually submitted work without permission from the instructor.

Falsification/Misrepresentation - Falsification occurs when a student falsifies, alters, or incorrectly defines the contents of documents or other materials related to academic matters. Documents might pertain to scheduling, prerequisites, and transcripts, or misrepresent facts about oneself for the purpose of obtaining an academic advantage or for the purpose of academically injuring another student.