Regulations and Policies
Academic Dishonesty
The University seeks to promote and ensure academic honesty and personal integrity among students and other members of the University community. Toward this end, the University has an Honor Code to which all students subscribe as a condition of admission to the University. It provides as follows: “I will be academically honest in all of my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of others.” In addition, the University has developed a policy and procedures on academic honesty to serve the aforementioned goals. Academic honesty means performing all academic work without cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, giving or receiving assistance from any other person or using any source of information that is not common knowledge (unless that assistance or use is authorized by the person responsible for supervising that academic work or fairly attributed to the source of assistance or information).
Specific regulations governing student academic conduct are contained in the policy,""A Culture of Honesty"," and these should be read to avoid any misunderstanding. All members of the academic community are responsible for knowing the policy and procedures on academic honesty. "A Culture of Honesty" is available by request from the Office of the Vice President for Instruction, 101 Franklin House, and it is also on the website: www.uga.edu/honesty.
No student shall knowingly perform, attempt to perform, or assist another in performing any act of academic dishonesty. The following acts by a student are examples of behavior constituting academic dishonesty:
1. Plagiarism—This means submitting for academic advancement the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of another that are not common knowledge, without fair attribution to that other person. Unfair attribution includes, but is not limited to, a direct quotation of all or part of another’s words without identifying that fact by appropriate marks, or merely stating the source generally in a bibliography without having noted the specified sources within the body of the work. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, the following acts when performed without fair attribution:
a.) Directly quoting all or part of another person’s written or spoken words without quotation marks, as appropriate to the discipline
b.) Paraphrasing all or part of another person’s written or spoken words without notes or documentation within the body of the work
c.) Stating an idea, theory, or formula originated by another person
d.) Repeating information, such as statistics, that is not common knowledge and that was originally compiled by another person and
e.) Purchasing (or receiving in any other manner) a term paper or other assignment that is the work of another person and submitting that term paper or other assignment as the student’s own work.
2. Unauthorized assistance—Giving or receiving assistance in connection with any examination or other academic work that has not been authorized by an instructor. During examinations, quizzes, lab work, and similar activity, students are to assume that any assistance (such as books, notes, calculators, and conversations with others) is unauthorized unless it has been specifically authorized by an instructor. Examples of prohibited behavior include, but are not limited to, the following when not authorized:
a.) Copying, or allowing another to copy, answers to an examination
b.) Transmitting or receiving, during an examination, information that is within the scope of the material to be covered by that examination (including transmission orally, in writing, by sign, electronic signal, or other manner)
c.) Giving or receiving answers to an examination scheduled for a later time
d.) Completing for another, or allowing another to complete for you, all or part of an assignment (such as a paper, exercise, homework assignment, presentation, report, computer application, laboratory experiment, or computation)
e.) Submitting a group assignment, or allowing that assignment to be submitted, as the work of all of the members of the group when less than all of the group members assisted substantially in its preparation and
f.) Unauthorized use of a programmable calculator or other electronic device.
3. Lying/Tampering—Giving any false information in connection with the performance of any academic work or in connection with any proceeding under this policy. This includes, but is not limited to:
a.) Giving false reasons (in advance or after the fact) for failure to complete academic work
b.) Falsifying the results of any laboratory or experimental work or fabricating any data or information
c.) Altering any academic work after it has been submitted for academic credit and requesting academic credit for the altered work
d.) Altering grade, lab, or attendance records
e.) Damaging computer equipment (including removable media such as disks, CDs, flash drives, etc.) or laboratory equipment in order to alter or prevent the evaluation of academic work, unauthorized use of another’s computer password, disrupting the content or accessibility of an Internet site, or impersonating another to obtain computer resources
f.) Giving or encouraging false information or testimony in connection with academic work or any proceeding under this policy and
g.) Submitting for academic advancement an item of academic work that has been submitted (even when previously submitted by that student) for credit in another course for academic advancement, unless done pursuant to authorization from the instructor supervising the work or containing fair attribution to the original work.
4. Theft—Stealing, taking, or procuring in any other unauthorized manner (such as by physical removal from a professor’s office or unauthorized inspection of computerized material) information related to any academic work (such as exams, grade records, forms used in grading, books, papers, computer equipment and data, and laboratory materials and data.
5. Failure by a student to comply with a duty imposed under the academic honesty policy.