Academic  Honesty
From the Ursinus College Student Handbook 

You are cheating if you:

1.      copy answers or use information from a fellow student’s paper during a quiz, text, or examination.

2.      divulge answers or information, or otherwise give improper aid to another student during a quiz, test, or examination or accept such aid.

3.      relay or receive any improperly obtained or confidential information concerning a quiz, test, or examination.  (Example:  if one sees the test before it is to be given and transmits information concerning its contents or whereabouts to other students.)

4.      use or refer to any unauthorized notes, books, calculators, problem solving aids such as “cheat sheets” during a quiz, test, or examination.

5.      collaborate improperly with another student on an open-book or take-home quiz, test or examination; or obtain information from an unsuspecting fellow student during such an exercise.

6.      as a proctor or student assistant, divulge confidential information or aid any student in an improper manner during a laboratory exercise, quiz, test, or examination.

7.      commit an act of plagiarism in any form.

8.      borrow under false pretenses, steal or otherwise improperly obtain lecture or research notes, laboratory data, or any information gathered by another student and present it as your own work (examples: term papers; laboratory reports or experimental yields; computer programs or assignments; English composition themes), or knowingly collaborate with another student by making such material available to him/her.

9.      falsify laboratory data, notes, results, or research data of any type in any course and present it as your own work.

10.  steal or intentionally damage or destroy notes, research data, laboratory projects, library materials, computer software (including the intentional passing of a computer virus), or any other work of another student (or faculty member), out of malice, or for the purpose of sabotaging that person’s work and thereby gaining an unfair advantage to yourself.

11.  knowingly and willingly violate any special rules concerning research procedures, group assignments, or inter-student collaboration which may be established by an instructor in any course.

12.  submit the same work, including oral presentations, for different courses without the permission of the instructors involved.  Since it is expected that different courses offer different learning experiences, students are depriving themselves of an educational opportunity by submitting the same or similar work for more than one course.  Examples include but are not limited to submitting a partial or complete paper previously handed into another class, superficially reworking one assignment for submission to another class.  (Example: submitting a sociology paper as an English 100 paper.)

13.  misrepresent yourself to an instructor or an administrator for the purpose of gaining special favors or extensions for academic work missed.  Examples include but are not limited to lying about your health or the health of a relative, forging doctor’s notes.

14.  forge signatures on forms, documents, or letters pertinent to College business.  This may include but is not limited to course of study sheets, drop/add forms, or doctor’s notes.

      You are an accessory to cheating, and penalties may be applied, if you:

1.      witness or have direct knowledge of any of the aforementioned forms of cheating and fail to inform an authorized person (faculty member, administrator, proctor, or student assistant).

2.      bring unauthorized materials into a testing area and fail to or refuse to remove them when instructed to do so.

3.      fail to or refuse to comply with admonitions from a faculty member or authorized proctor to cease any activity, which might aid other students in cheating.