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Academic Integrity

Cheating is unfair to those students who seek honest appraisal of their ability and effort. One of the school's responsibilities is to create a climate in which a student can be proud of honest accomplishments. Middle College employs a value system that upholds honest work and endeavor and regards deviations from this goal as repugnant. Please also check CSM's guidelines for addressing cheating and plagiarism 

Listed below are the behaviors that define cheating:

Taking information

  • Copying homework assignments from another student.
  • Working together on a take-home test or homework when not specifically permitted by the instructor.
  • Looking at another student’s paper during an examination.
  • Looking at a text or notes during an examination when not specifically permitted by the instructor.
  • Giving work to another student to be copied.
  • Giving answers to another student during an examination
  • After taking an exam, informing students in another section of the course of questions that appear on the test.
  • Providing an essay to another student.

Plagiarism

  • Copying homework answers from a text to hand in for a grade.
  • Failing to give credit for ideas, facts, or conclusions derived from another author. Failure to use quotation marks when quoting directly from another person, whether a paragraph, a sentence, or a part thereof.
  • Submitting a paper purchased from a “research” or term paper service, or submitting an assignment or paper taken from online services.
  • Retyping a friend’s paper and handing it in as a student's own work.
  • Taking a paper from house files and submitting it as your own work.
  • Claiming credit for artistic work done by someone else, such as a music composition, photos, painting, drawing, sculpture, or design.

AI Platforms

We recognize that AI platforms can be effective tools for academic purposes, including outlining, organizing, brainstorming, and editing. However, there is a distinct difference between using it as a resource and plagiarizing directly from it. When you use it as a resource, we expect to see it in your Works Cited.  Please see our student- and staff-created AI Guide.

Other examples of academic dishonesty:

  • Planning with one or more fellow students to commit any form of academic dishonesty together.
  • Giving an assignment to another student knowing that student will plagiarize it.
  • Having another student take an exam, or do a computer program or lab experiment.
  • Lying to an instructor to increase your grade.
  • Submitting a paper, substantially the same, for credit in two courses without approval of the instructors involved.
  • Altering graded work after it has been returned and then submitting it for regrading.