Statement of Academic Integrity

Dishonesty in academic work includes plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration or teamwork on assignments, violation of the conditions under which the work is to be done, fabrication of data, unauthorized use of computer data, and excessive revision by someone other than the student.

Plagiarism is the act of representing the work of others as one's own. This includes copying the work of others on exams and falsifying or not noting sources in term papers, theses, and dissertations.

Plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty are subject to strict disciplinary action, which may include one or more of the following: loss of credit for the assignment or course; expulsion from the program of study; expulsion from the University.

Students are expected to do their own thinking when writing quizzes, tests, and term papers, drawing upon the ideas of others and then synthesizing them in the student's own words. Excessive copying from other sources, even if the sources are acknowledged, without adequate expression of the student's own thinking, is unacceptable and may be considered inadvertent plagiarism, necessitating a rewriting of the paper, test, quiz, or exam.

I declare the following to be true: I have read and will abide by the Statement of Academic Integrity above.