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A. CODE
Illinois Tech expects students to maintain high standards of academic integrity. Students preparing for the practice of a profession are expected to conform to a code of integrity and ethical standards commensurate with the high expectations society places upon the practitioners of a learned profession. In sum, no student may seek to gain an unfair advantage over another.
It shall be a violation of this Code of Academic Honesty for a student to engage in conduct that violates the established standards of their major academic discipline, the established standards of the academic discipline in which they are engaged, the established standards of the profession for which they are training, or the standards of Illinois Tech set forth herein. In addition, it is a violation of this Code of Academic Honesty for a student knowingly to engage or attempt to engage in any of the following or to engage or to attempt to engage in a course of action that would cause a reasonable person to conclude a violation of any of the following:
1. The misrepresentation of any work submitted for credit or otherwise as other than the product of a student’s sole independent effort, such as using the ideas of others without attribution and other forms of plagiarism;
2. The use of any unauthorized assistance in taking quizzes, tests or examinations;
3. The acquisition, without permission, of tests, answer sheets, problem solutions or other academic
material when such material has been withheld from distribution by the instructor;
4. Deliberate and harmful obstruction of the studies, research or academic work of any member of
the Illinois Tech community;
5. Making a material misrepresentation in any submission to or through any office of Illinois Tech to a
potential employer, agency, professional society, meeting, or organization, which includes, without limitation, any unauthorized access to Illinois Tech’s digital or electronic systems for the purposes of altering or seeking to alter or submitting or seeking to submit false, misleading or inaccurate information; or
6. The intentional assistance of others in the violation of the standards set forth in this Code of Academic Honesty.
B. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE
1. General. Any member of the Illinois Tech community who is aware of a violation of the Code of Academic Honesty, or who has evidence that a violation has occurred, is urged to inform the appropriate course instructor, academic unit head or dean or send an email to academichonesty@iit.edu. Faculty members or administrators who are aware of a violation, or who have good faith evidence of a violation, must report the infraction to the Designated Dean of Academic Discipline (DDAD) via https://web.iit.edu/ugaa/academic- honesty (both graduate and undergraduate) or at academichonesty@iit.edu. As discussed below, punitive actions on the part of the course instructor in relation to academic honesty must also be reported to the DDAD.
For the Mies Campus, the Rice Campus, the Moffett Campus, and Institute of Design, the DDAD is the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. For Chicago-Kent College of Law, the DDAD is the Assistant Dean of Students, and for the Stuart School of Business, it is the Dean.
2. Action by a Course Instructor. If a course instructor believes that a violation described in Section A.1, A.2 or A.3, or that is otherwise prohibited by this Code of Academic Dishonesty and directly relates to a course has occurred, they are advised to meet with the student. During the meeting, the instructor must inform the student the nature of the infraction and explain why it is an issue of academic honesty. After that allowance, the student has an opportunity to respond to alleged violation. Following the meeting, if the course instructor determines the violation occurred, they are required to report the violation, a summary of the facts evidencing the violation (including the course syllabus and or course materials that explain or point to sources that explain academic honesty and plagiarism appropriate to the discipline) and the sanction to the DDAD. Appropriate sanctions include:
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