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Academic Dishonesty
The College of New Jersey is a community of scholars and learners who respect and believe in academic integrity. This integrity is violated when someone engages in any of the dishonest behavior described below.
Academic dishonesty is any attempt by the student to gain academic advantage through dishonest means, to submit, as his/her own, work which has not been done by him/her or to give improper aid to another student in the completion of an assignment. Such dishonesty would include, but is not limited to: submitting as his/her own a project, paper, report, test, or speech copied from, partially copied, or paraphrased from the work of another (whether the source is printed, under copyright, or in manuscript form). Credit must be given for words quoted or paraphrased. The rules apply to any academic dishonesty, whether the work is graded or ungraded, group or individual, written or oral.
Academic dishonesty is not tolerated at The College of New Jersey. Each student must do his or her own work and behave in an ethically responsible manner.
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following behaviors:
- Copying from another student's exam
- Completing an academic activity or taking an exam for someone else
- Giving answers to or sharing answers with another student during an exam
- Using notes, books, or other aids of any kind during an exam when prohibited
- Stealing an exam or possessing a stolen copy of an exam
- Sharing answers during an exam by using a system of signals
- Disrupting or delaying the administration of an exam or academic activity
- Submitting a work for credit that includes words, ideas, data, or creative work of others without acknowledging the source
- Using another author's words without enclosing them in quotation marks, without paraphrasing them, or without citing the source appropriately
- Concealing, destroying, or stealing research or library materials with the purpose of depriving others of their use
- Falsifying bibliographic entries
- Submitting any academic assignment which contains falsified or fabricated data or results
- Submitting the same term paper or academic assignment to another class without the permission of the instructor
- Feigning illness or personal circumstances to avoid a required academic activity
- Sabotaging someone else's work
- Collaborating on homework or take-home exams when instructions have called for independent work
- Attempting intimidation for academic advantage
- Inappropriate or unethical use of technologies to gain academic advantage
- Submitting a falsified document
