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C H E AT I N G P O L I C Y AT FRA N KLIN COLLEG E
“The faculty of Franklin College recognize the following as violations of academic honesty:”
Friday, Dec. 9, 2016 | TheFranklinNews.com
Campus rules on approximately 20 academic dishonesty cases each year
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Depending on others’ help beyond what is approved by the instructor in “writing papers, preparing laboratory reports, solving problems or carrying out other assignments.”
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Plagiarism, or using the work of another person, either by paraphrasing or directly quoting, “without full and clear acknowledgment.”
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“Cheating on quizzes, tests, any kind of assessment or examinations.”
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Granting rights to a student to use another person’s work as their own.
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“Mutilating, stealing, hiding or illegally removing or keeping Franklin College library materials or materials made available for student use by a faculty member or a college department.”
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Reproducing copyright material without authorization.
SHELBY MULLIS
shelby.mullis@franklincollege.edu
As final exams approach, crunch time begins. But despite the desire to succeed, or the lack of time available to spend hours perfecting an assignment, Tim Garner, the college’s interim provost and dean of the college, advises students to avoid any form of academic dishonesty. On an annual basis, Garner estimates approximately 20 to 30 students at Franklin College are reported for academic dishonesty throughout an academic year, including J-term. Garner attributes this behavior to a variety of factors. “One is simply the desire to succeed,” he said. “People want their paper to succeed. They want their exam to succeed. By succeed, I mean that they want their performance to yield a good outcome.” Students are also consumed by a number of courses, sports and extracurricular activities. For this reason, Garner said some students may oftentimes “take a shortcut.” “People are tempted to take shortcuts in all areas of life. Why wouldn’t they be tempted in academics, despite the fact that we say it’s important that you don’t?” Garner said. “It’s wrong. It’s not good for you. You’re cheating yourself if you do it. You look at other areas of life and people cut corners in other areas of life, too.”
The college expects students “to maintain high standards of personal integrity, especially in their academic work,” according to “The Key.” But in order for a student to face consequences, their act must first be discovered. One resource available for faculty to use as a way of detecting plagiarism is TurnItIn.com. “Faculty members may selectively choose how or even if they will use the service,” said Vicki Mast, the college’s technology integration facilitator. “It may be used to improve research sources, writing skills, as well as being used as a plagiarism check.” Mast said a professor may also choose to have all papers submitted via a TurnItIn dropbox, or they may only submit papers suspected to be subject to plagiarism. While Mast manages the services offered by the college, she does not track any use of the product. Garner said students often say, “’I didn’t realize that that was cheating. I didn’t realize that was plagiarism.’” For instances similar to this, TurnItIn.com also offers “The Plagiarism Spectrum,” a webpage designed to explain how plagiarism is defined. It also provides examples of the 10 most common types of plagiarism. Although he said it is troubling to hear a student has committed an act
of academic misconduct such as cheating or plagiarizing, what troubles him most lies beyond the student. “What troubles me about that is not that I think people are being dishonest, necessarily, but just that I wonder if [the college has] done a good enough job in general of helping people understand what it means to say that your work has integrity,” Garner said. “That it is your work and that you’re representing it properly as your work as opposed to something that isn’t and that people don’t understand the difference. That’s always troubling.”
The Key: A Guide to Student Life
Nicole Hernandez | The Franklin
The urge to cheat is high among students — especially during finals week. The college has strict policies against academic dishonesty that can even leave students expelled.