Peralta Community College District
AP 5521
Administrative Procedure 5521 Academic Integrity/ Academic Honesty for Students
The following list includes, but is not limited to, some of the activities which exemplify academic
dishonesty:
I.
Cheating:
a. Copying, in part or in whole, from someone else's test.
b. Communicating answers to another student during an examination.
c. Taking an examination for another student or having someone take an
examination for oneself.
d. Altering or interfering with grading.
e. Using or consulting any sources or materials not authorized by the professor during an
examination, including calculators, dictionaries, or any electronic devices, including
texting to obtain information.
f.
Misreporting or altering the data in laboratory or research projects.
g. Committing other acts, which defraud or misrepresent one's own academic work.
II.
Plagiarism:
a. Incorporating the ideas, words, sentences, paragraphs, or parts of another person's
writing, without giving appropriate credit, and representing the product as one’s own
work.
b. Representing another’s artistic/scholarly works (such as musical compositions, computer
programs, photographs, paintings, drawings, or sculptures) as one’s own.
c. Submitting a paper purchased or downloaded from a research or term paper service.
d. Using the content of thought in outside sources (books, periodicals, the Internet, or other
electronic sources, or other written or spoken sources) without giving proper credit (by
naming the person and putting any exact words used in quotation marks).
e. Writing or creating a speech, essay, report, project or paper for another student.
III.
Other Specific Examples of Academic Dishonesty:
a. Purposely allowing another student to copy from one’s paper during a test.
b. Giving one’s homework, term paper, or other academic work to another student to
plagiarize.
c. Having another person submit any work in one’s name.
d. Lying to an instructor or college official to improve one’s grade.
e. Altering graded work after it has been returned, then submitting the work for re-grading
without the instructor’s permission.
f. Removing tests or examinations from the classroom without the approval of the
instructor.
g. Stealing tests or examinations.
h. Having one’s work corrected for spelling or grammar, if contrary to the rules of the
course.
i. Forging signatures on drop/add slips or altering other college documents.
j. Facilitating any of the above on behalf of other students.
Faculty members are encouraged to review this policy with their students and to advise students on the
course syllabus as to the consequences of academic dishonesty.
Peralta Community College District
IV.
AP 5521
Consequences of Academic Dishonesty:
Please refer to Policy and Procedures for “Student Conduct, Discipline, and Due Process,” which are
published in college catalogs.
BP 5500 Standards of Conduct and AP 5520 Student Conduct, Discipline, and Due Process
References:
Accreditation Standard II.A.7
Education Code Sections 66300 and 66301