Academic Program Academic Integrity Policy
Westmont College is a Community of Christian Scholars
When students join our college community, they are expected, as apprentice scholars, to search for truth with integrity and accuracy. This quest requires humility about our abilities, respect for the ideas of others, and originality in our thinking. Since Westmont is a Christian community, the integrity of our scholarship is rooted in the integrity of our faith. We seek to be followers of Christ in the classroom, in the library, and at the privacy of our computers. 违反学术诚信是对韦斯特蒙特ag娱乐官网信任的严重破坏,因为它们违反了对真正学习和基督教一致性至关重要的真理的尊重. Such deception also hurts those students who do their work with integrity. 违反学术诚信可能包括作弊(在考试或其他作业中使用未经授权的信息来源), 伪造(在任何学术项目或义务中歪曲事实)或抄袭(使用他人的词语或想法而没有给予适当的荣誉). 违反学术诚信的行为还可能包括亲自向他人提供测验和测试或论文和论文, via the internet, or other means thereby inviting others to cheat, falsify, or engage in plagiarism.
Faculty and students should operate in an environment of mutual trust and respect. Faculty will expect students to act in ways consistent with academic integrity. However, for both scholarly and spiritual reasons, inappropriate sharing of one's work, cheating, falsification, 抄袭和所有其他违反学术诚信的行为在韦斯特蒙特ag娱乐官网是不被容忍的.
Types of Academic Dishonesty
Cheating
作弊是指通过欺骗手段获得或帮助他人获得完成工作的荣誉. Cheating includes, but is not limited to:
- Talking or communicating through signals with another student during an exam;
- 使用未经授权的材料,如电子设备或小抄来获取考试信息;
- Copying or sharing information during an exam;
- Leaving during an exam in order to obtain information;
- Misrepresenting the procedure used to take an exam or complete an assignment;
- Taking, using, sharing or posting to the internet an exam or answers to an exam.
Falsification
伪造是指为了误导而篡改信息、文件或其他证据. 这种形式的学术欺诈包括但不限于:
- Fabrication or falsification of data, analysis, citations or other information for assignments, exams, speeches or any other academic work;
- 伪造或者擅自涂改官方文件、证件或者签名的;
- 造谣:对某人学术成就、经历、证书或专业知识的虚假陈述;
- Withholding information related to admission, transfer credits, disciplinary actions, financial aid, or academic status.
Plagiarism
To plagiarize is to present someone else's work—his or her words, line of thought, or organizational structure—as our own. This occurs when sources are not cited properly, or when permission is not obtained from the original author to use his or her work. By not acknowledging the sources that are used in our work, we are wrongfully taking material that is not our own. Plagiarism is thus an insidious and disruptive form of dishonesty. It violates relationships with known classmates and professors, and it violates the legal rights of people we may never meet.
另一个人的“工作”可以有多种形式:打印的或电子的计算机程序副本, musical compositions, drawings, paintings, oral presentations, papers, essays, articles or chapters, statistical data, tables or figures, etc. (The Learning Skills Centre, 1999). In short, 如果任何可以被认为是他人知识产权的信息被使用而没有适当地确认原始来源, this is plagiarism. Conversely, 以一种诱使他人抄袭的方式提供论文和论文, either in person or via the internet, 或以其他方式参与抄袭的做法,构成对学术诚信的侵犯.
Forms of Plagiarism
Various types and levels of plagiarism are recognized at Westmont, and all are unacceptable in submitted assignments. Unless an instructor specifies otherwise, the following general definitions apply.
Minimal plagiarism is defined as doing any of the following without attribution:
- Inserting verbatim phrases of 2-3 distinctive words.
- 将同义词替换到原句子中,而不是重写完整的句子.
- Reordering the clauses of a sentence.
- Imitating the sentence, paragraph, or organizational structure, or writing style of a source (Saupe, 1998; Student Judicial Affairs, UCD, 1999).
Substantial plagiarism is defined as doing any of the following without attribution:
- Inserting verbatim sentences or longer passages from a source.
- 将释义与逐字句子相结合,创造出一段或更多的文本.
- Using a source's line of logic, thesis or ideas.
- Repeatedly and pervasively engaging in minimal plagiarism.
Complete plagiarism is defined as doing any of the following without attribution:
- Submitting or presenting someone's complete published or unpublished work (paper, article, or chapter) (Wilhoit).
- Submitting another student's work for an assignment, with or without that person's knowledge or consent (Wilhoit).
- Using information from a campus file of old assignments (Wilhoit).
- Downloading a term paper from a web site (Wilhoit).
- Buying a term paper from a mail order company or web site (Wilhoit).
- Reusing or modifying a previously submitted paper (e.g., (从另一门课程)来完成当前的任务,而无需事先获得相关教师的批准.
Response to Violations of Academic Integrity
In any given course, when a professor detects a violation of academic integrity, 该课程的讲师决定违规的严重程度以及作业或课程的最终后果. 在大多数情况下,作业的成绩会是F,尽管如果老师宣布对任何违反学术诚信的行为采取零容忍政策,整个课程也有可能得到F. In all cases, 教师会利用一次违规作为一个机会,帮助学生学习如何在未来避免类似的错误.
If possible, 该课程的教授将与学生会面讨论该事件,并通知学生将通知教务长和学生生活办公室. The student should be informed of the appeal process (described below).
该课程的教授将通知教务长和学生生活办公室所有学术不诚实的情况(link to report form). For minor, first offenses, the infraction will simply be noted. For repeated or more severe infractions, 学院可能会采取其他措施,包括但不限于书面警告或召开学生行为会议(可能导致停学), or expulsion).
If instances of plagiarism are discovered after a course or a degree is completed, 抄袭的程度和频率将由副教务长与相关教员协商后评估. Consequences may include changing the grade awarded in a course or courses, delaying the awarding of the degree, withholding the degree, or rescinding the degree.
Appeals
如果学生认为自己因违反学术诚信政策而受到不公平的指控或不公正的对待,可以向学术诚信委员会提出申诉, 哪个部门由教务长(或指定人员)和发生违规行为的部门主席组成. If the instructor making the accusation is the department chair, the provost will appoint another member of the faculty to the Committee. 申诉必须采用书面形式,并在正常工作时间(周一至周五)提交给教务长办公室, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) within three calendar days of the decision. 如果第三天是非工作日,请通过电子邮件向provost@westmont提交申诉.edu.
上诉必须采用书面形式,并包括一份陈述,概述和支持学生上诉的具体理由. 上诉不是对原案的再审,教务长的作用不是用他或她自己的判决代替原审判决的判决. 上诉干事的职责是决定是否应考虑由于程序错误而作出的新决定, the availability of new information or the imposition of excessive sanctions. 在上诉过程中,教务长可以选择适当地取消制裁.
Following a prompt and effective review, 教务长将在提交上诉后不迟于十个工作日内就学生的上诉作出决定. The decision will be communicated in writing to the appealing student. The decision will be in one of the two following forms:
- 维持原决定:对原决定的审查不能证明有必要作出不同的决定, the original decision will be upheld.
- 原决定修改:对原决定的审查表明支持上诉,需要作出不同的决定, the Provost will modify the original decision. This decision may include sanctions being decreased, modified, or revoked.
The decision on the appeal is final, and no other office will accept or review appeals following the decision.