a) Copying or obtaining information from another student's test paper.

b) Using during a test materials not authorized by the person giving the test.

c) Collaborating, conspiring, or cooperating during a test with any other person by giving or receiving information without authority.

d) Stealing, buying, or otherwise obtaining all or part of an unadministered test.

e) Selling or giving away all or part of an unadministered test or any information concerning specific questions and items on an unadministered test.

f) Requesting, bribing, blackmailing, or in any other way causing any other person to obtain an unadministered test or information about an unadministered test or a test in the process of being administered.

g) Substituting for another student, or permitting any other person to substitute for oneself, to take a test.

h) Submitting as one's own, in fulfillment of academic requirements, any theme, report, term paper, essay, other written work, painting, drawing, sculpture, or other art work prepared totally or in part by another.

i) Any selling, giving, or otherwise supplying to another student for use in fulfilling academic requirements any theme, report, term paper, essay, other written work, painting, drawing, sculpture, or other art work.

j) Any other devious means of securing an unearned grade in a course offered for credit.

Plagiarism is the use of any other person's work (such work need not be copyrighted) and the unacknowledged incorporation of that work in one's own work offered for credit.

Procedures and Sanctions: An alleged instance of academic cheating or plagiarism shall be investigated by the instructor, including calling the Dean for Student Affairs to determine whether the student has a record of previous offense. For a first offense, a minimum sanction of zero shall be imposed on the work in question. For a second offense, the student shall receive a minimum sanction of "F" in the course. For a third offense, the student shall be suspended from the University for an indefinite period by the Vice President for Student Affairs. The student, instructor, instructor's department head, and Vice President for Student Affairs shall be notified of the sanction within five working days of the decision.

Student Policy Handbook