What Constitutes Academic Dishonesty

• Cheating—Any attempt to gain an unfair advantage by using external assistance during an examination or an unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparation of academic assignments.
• Deception—Providing false information concerning a formal academic exercise.
• Fabrication—The falsification of data, information, or citations in any formal academic exercise.
• Falsification— Alteration of official or unofficial records.
• Plagiarism—The use of ideas or words or statements of another person without due acknowledgment.
• Sabotage—Preventing others from completing their work (for example removing pages out of library books).