Academic Integrity

OSU students are expected to follow the policies and guidelines written in the Student Code of Conduct. OSU takes these codes and policies seriously and requires students to understand the code and the Academic Integrity Policy. To learn more, visit studentconduct.okstate.edu and academicintegrity.okstate.edu.

The following are excerpts from the Academic Integrity

Policy: All members of the Oklahoma State University community are entrusted with academic integrity, which encompasses the fundamental values of honesty, trust, respect, fairness and responsibility. Students are expected to:

• Understand and uphold the academic integrity guidelines established by the university and their instructors.

• Present their own work for evaluation by their instructors.

• Appropriately cite the words and ideas of others. • Protect their work from misuse.

• Accept responsibility for their actions. • Treat instructors and members of the Academic

Integrity Panel with respect when violations of academic integrity are examined or appealed and trust that instructors and the Academic Integrity Panel will enforce policy and procedures. Behaviors that violate the fundamental values of academic integrity may include but are not limited to:

• Unauthorized collaboration.

• Plagiarism. • Multiple submissions. • Cheating on exams (including prerequisite exams). • Fabricating information. • Helping another person cheat. • Unauthorized advance access to exams.

Instructors may identify other behaviors that violate academic integrity.

CONSEQUENCES

These behaviors may subject the student to disciplinary action including receiving a failing grade on an assignment, exam or course, receiving notation of a violation of academic integrity on their transcript and suspension from the university. Serious violations discovered after a student graduates may lead to revocation of a degree. These behaviors are described in detail in the Academic Integrity Guidelines. The following sanctions are applied based on the seriousness of the violation:

a. Admonition — grade reduction and/or resubmission of the assignment for minor, first-time violations. b. Level one sanction — grade of “zero” or “F” for the assignment or examination. c. Level two sanction — grade of “F!” for the course. The transcript will indicate that a grade of “F!” signifies the student failed the course because of an alleged violation of academic integrity. d. Level three sanction — recommend dismissal from the university.