Unauthorized collaboration and/or accessing or using unauthorized or prohibited materials, information, tools, technologies, or study aids.These descriptions illustrate the range of academic misconduct there may be academic misconduct that falls outside these categories. Descriptions of common types of academic misconduct are below. When University-wide "administrative" sanctions may be appropriate in addition to the academic sanctions issued per these procedures, the violation is referred to the Office of Student Accountability and Conflict Response, or campus designee ("Student Accountability").Īn academic integrity violation is an intentional, unintentional, or attempted violation of course or assessment policies to gain an academic advantage or to advantage or disadvantage another student academically. Academic sanctions range from a warning to removal from the academic program. Campus or college Academic Integrity Committees shall maintain guidelines on ranges of appropriate sanctions for given types of infractions. The shared conviction, represented in the procedures that follow, is that academic integrity is best taught and reinforced by faculty as an element of the teaching and learning process.Įach college shall interpret and apply Academic Integrity Procedures consistent with University policy.
Recognizing the importance of academic integrity to the Penn State community, the University Faculty Senate adopted a new Academic Integrity policy in Spring 2000.
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