Guidelines on Academic Dishonesty
Administrative Procedures
Academic dishonesty, in any form, is expressly prohibited by the rules of the District Board of Trustees of Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
As used herein, academic dishonesty incorporates the following:
a. Cheating which is defined as the giving or taking of any information or material with the intent of wrongfully aiding oneself or another in academic work considered in the determination of a course grade.
b. Plagiarism which is defined as the act of stealing or passing off as one’s own work the words, ideas, or conclusions of another as if the work submitted were the product of one’s own thinking rather than an idea or product derived from another source.
c. Any other form of inappropriate behavior which may include but is not limited to: falsifying records or data; lying; unauthorized copying, tampering, abusing or otherwise unethically using computer or other stored information; and, any other act of misconduct which may reasonably be deemed to be a part of this heading.
d. Any student alleged to have committed any act of academic dishonesty as defined herein, shall be entitled to due process as defined in District Board of Trustees’ Rule 6Hx7-2.18, prior to the administration of disciplinary action including suspension and dismissal.
The following items constitute examples of academic dishonesty:
a. Asking for information from another student during a test situation.
b. Copying answers from another’s paper during a test situation.
c. Knowingly letting someone copy from one’s paper during a test situation.
d. Using sources other than which is permitted by the instructor in a test situation.
e. Copying material exactly or essentially from outside sources while omitting appropriate documentation.
f. Copying or falsifying a report of a laboratory, clinical project, or assignment without doing the required work.
g. Changing answers on a returned, graded test in order to get the grade revised.
h. Substituting for another student, or permitting another person to substitute for one’s self, to take a test.
i. Stealing visual concepts and presenting them as one’s own (e.g., drawing, sketches, diagrams, graphs, maps, etc.)
j. Stealing (copying) of computer programs and presenting them as one’s own. Such stealing includes the use of another student’s program, as obtained from the magnetic media (or interactive terminals) or from cards, print-out paper, and "borrowing" from copyrighted computer programs.