Genesis University is dedicated to strong academic standards, ideals, and practices and places the highest value on academic honesty and integrity. Standards for academic integrity prohibit dishonest academic behaviors. Therefore, a student who enrolls at Genesis University agrees to respect and acknowledge the research and ideas of others in his or her work and abide by regulations governing the submission of academic work as stipulated by Genesis University, the academic program, and faculty members.
Academic integrity requires that all academic work be wholly the product of an identified individual or individuals. Violations of academic integrity include:
- Copying from or giving assistance to others on an examination
- Plagiarizing portions of an assignment
- Using forbidden material on an examination
- Using a purchased term paper
- Presenting the work of another as one’s own
To review, students are expected and obligated to respect and abide by the basic standards of personal and professional integrity.
Consider the following examples of possible violations:
- Cheating during a test
- Helping others to cheat
- Using unauthorized materials for an assignment, quiz, or test
- Receiving information about a test from someone who already took it earlier
- Copying something from the Internet without acknowledgment
- Summarizing someone else’s ideas without revealing the source
Sanctions for violations of the academic integrity policy may include, but is not limited to the following:
- Requiring the student to repeat the assignment or do additional related assignment(s)
- Lowering the grade or failing the student on the particular assignment involved
- Lowering the grade or failing the student in the course
- Dismissal from the school
