CIS Academic Honesty Statement

The CIS Department believes that personal honesty and integrity are as important in the computer field as technical skill. We want our degrees and certificates to reflect this belief. To help students understand what constitutes dishonesty in a CIS course, we have developed the following policy:

1. A student should complete all assignments, projects, quizzes, and tests individually unless the instructor gives permission to work with a partner or a group.

2. If an instructor requests the source files or data files used to produce the output, a student should be able to submit a disk that contains his/her individual work.

3. A student must not intentionally use or attempt to use another student’s work.

4. A student must not knowingly assist another student in the dishonest use of course materials.

5. A student must not copy material from the Internet, books, magazines, newspapers, or any other source without acknowledgment.

Disciplinary action for cheating may result in failure for the course and a formal report filed with the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs. The student(s) will have the opportunity to meet with the Associate Vice President and/or appear before a Judicial Review Board to contest this report. Suspension, expulsion, or a record of the event on the student’s transcript may result. Refer to the course syllabus for additional information about the instructor’s policy.