Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is central to the educational mission of the college. CSI expects students, faculty, staff, and administrators to be honest in all aspect of their work for the college. CSI instructors evaluate all student work with the assumption that the work presented is the individual’s own. Anything less than full transparency about the origin and provenance of the work presented is unacceptable. Persons who stray from this expectation are subject to disciplinary action, which may include, but is not limited to: verbal warnings, written plans for improvement, zero scores on affected work, course failure, and/or dismissal from the course, program or college. The Academic Integrity section of the CSI Student Handbook offers additional information.
Defining acts which may violate CSI’s Academic Integrity expectations
CSI’s definition of Academic Dishonesty: Academic Dishonesty is any behavior which results in CSI persons intentionally giving or receiving unauthorized assistance in an academic exercise or receiving credit for work which the individual knows not to be one’s own.
- Cheating—the use or attempted use of unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise. For the purposes of this policy, “academic exercise” includes all forms of work submitted for credit or hours.
- Fabrication— the falsification or invention, with intent to deceive, of any information or citation in an academic exercise.
- Plagiarism—the intentional adoption or reproduction of ideas, words, or statements of another person as one’s own without full and appropriate acknowledgment.
- Unauthorized Collaboration—the act of sharing information or working together in an academic exercise when such actions are not approved by the course instructor.
- Facilitating Academic Dishonesty—the act of helping or attempting to help another to violate any provision of the institutional code of academic integrity.
This list is not exhaustive. Please confer with your instructor, department chair, or dean if you have questions about these or other actions that may not conform with the academic integrity expectations of the college.