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ACADEMIC HONESTY AND DISHONESTY
Irvine Valley College actively promotes academic and institutional honesty. Academic dishonesty runs counter to a healthy intellectual environment and tarnishes the educational opportunities offered. Students may be disciplined for academic dishonesty as described below. Disciplinary actions range from a verbal reprimand, to a written reprimand, to disciplinary probation, to suspension, to expulsion.
Falsification
Falsification involves any conduct in academic work, records or programs that is intended to deceive, including, but not limited to, the following acts:
1. Forging signatures on official documents such as admissions cards and financial aid applications.
2. Changing or attempting to change official academic records without proper sanction.
3. Misrepresenting or falsifying successful completion of prerequisites.
4. Providing false information, such as immigration materials, during the
admission or matriculation process.
5. Falsifying one’s identification or falsely using another’s identification.
6. Logging in or otherwise gaining access to a computer, computer network
or protected web site using the password or identity of another.
7. Citation of data or information not actually in the source indicated.
8. Including in a reference list of works cited a text or other information
source which was not used in constructing the essay, paper or other
academic exercise.
9. Submission in a paper, lab report or other academic exercise of falsified,
invented, or fictitious data or evidence, or deliberate and knowing concealment or distortion of the true nature, origin, or function of such data or evidence.
10. Submitting as the student’s own work any academic exercises (e.g., written work, printing, sculpture, etc.) prepared totally or in part by another.
11. Taking a test for someone else or permitting someone else to take a test for the student.
Plagiarism
Students should be advised to state the source of ideas when these are known, since this lends strength to their answers and is part of the ethics of scholarship. Plagiarism is any conduct in academic work or programs involving misrepresentation of someone else’s words, ideas or data as one’s original work, including, but not limited to, the following:
1. Intentionally representing as one’s own work the work, words, ideas or arrangement of ideas, research, formulae, diagrams, statistics, or evidence of another.
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