Academic dishonesty is defined by Lone Star College as:
... any deliberate attempt to falsify, fabricate or otherwise tamper with data, information, records, or any other material that is relevant to the student's participation in any course, laboratory, or other academic exercise or function.
Most, although not all, such attempts fall into one or more of the following three categories:
1. Plagiarism
2. Cheating
3. Other misconduct, like tampering with files/records
And within those three categories, of course, are a myriad of examples of actions that count for each, including (but not limited to) things like:
- consulting your notes during a test that's not "open book," or otherwise asking for help or solutions (whether from friends, classmates, or strangers on Chegg, or even asking the campus tutors!)
- buying an essay online or otherwise having someone else write some or all of an assignment for you (or you writing a paper for someone else)
- taking a test for someone else
- collaborating on an assignment or test when the instructions do not say that is permitted
- omitting citations from a project, or citing sources not actually consulted
- submitting a corrupt file to buy time to finish a project
Academic Integrity
The Lone Star College System upholds the core values of learning: honesty, respect, fairness, and accountability. The system promotes the importance of personal and academic honesty. The system embraces the belief that all learners – students, faculty, staff and administrators – will act with integrity and honesty and must produce their own work and give appropriate credit to the work of others. Fabrication of sources, cheating, or unauthorized collaboration is not permitted on any work submitted within the system.
