Academic Misconduct

Academic Misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Aiding and Abetting Academic Misconduct: Knowingly helping, procuring, encouraging, or assisting another person in engaging in academic misconduct.
• Cheating:
  • Use and/or possession of unauthorized material or technology during an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade, such as tape cassettes, notes, tests, calculators, computer programs, cell phones, and/or smartphones, or other electronic devices.
  • Obtaining assistance with or answers to an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade from another person with or without that person's knowledge.
  • Furnishing assistance with answers to an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade to another person.
  • Those possessing, using, distributing, or selling unauthorized copies of an examination, computer program, or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade.
  • Representing as one's own an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade created by another person.
  • Taking an examination or any other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade in place of another person. vii. Obtaining unauthorized access to the computer files of another person or agency and/or altering or destroying those files.
  • Obtaining teacher edition textbooks, test banks, or other instructional materials only intended to be accessed by Athens Technical College officials, college administrators, or faculty members.
• Fabrication
  • The falsification of any information or citation in an examination or other written or oral work submitted for evaluation and/or a grade.
• Plagiarism
  
  • Submitting another’s published or unpublished work in whole, in part, or paraphrased as one’s own without entirely and correctly crediting the author with footnotes, quotation marks, citations, or bibliographical reference.
  • Submitting as one’s original work material obtained from an individual or an agency without reference to the person or agency as the source of the material.
  • Submitting as one’s original work material that has been produced through unacknowledged collaboration with others without release in writing from collaborators.