Academic Integrity
Academic Integrity
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
Academic honesty is expected of all students. All quotes and source material must be properly attributed. Your reporting must be truthful, accurate and free of fabrication. And the work you present as your own must be your own.
Violations of this policy include plagiarism, fabrication and any other form of cheating. An instructor who suspects a violation will discuss the matter confidentially with the student. If the matter remains unresolved, the issue will be referred to the Journalism Department Chairperson and the Academic Integrity Committee. Consequences of violating the policy may include failing the assignment, failing the course or a recommendation of suspension or expulsion from the college.
JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT
ACADEMIC HONESTY DEFINITIONS
Cheating
Unless told otherwise by their instructors, students should assume that examinations are to be completed without the use of books, notes, or conversation with others. Students who intentionally use or attempt to use unauthorized information in any academic exercise, including exams, are cheating.
Fabricating
Fabrication is the unauthorized and conscious falsification of information in an academic exercise. For example, it is academically dishonest to “invent” a quote, a scene or a statistic.
Facilitating Academic Dishonesty
Students who make their work available for another student to submit as his or her own, whether exactly as is or in altered form, are facilitating academic dishonesty, as are students who allow others to copy their answers on examinations. Aiding and abetting other students’ dishonesty is a serious breach of the academic honesty policy and is itself punishable just as cheating, fabricating, and plagiarizing are.
Plagiarizing
The Random House Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language defines plagiarism as “the unauthorized use of the language and thought of another author and the representation of them as one’s own.” Any conscious failures to accurately and completely document all uses of source materials constitute academic dishonesty. Source materials may include but are not limited to, printed books, magazines and newspapers, electronic media, oral reports, speeches statistical information or analyses, anecdotal comments, visual media, musical performances, theatrical performances and official or legal documents.
Academic honesty is expected of all students. All quotes and source material must be properly attributed. Your reporting must be truthful, accurate and free of fabrication. And the work you present as your own must be your own.
Violations of this policy include plagiarism, fabrication and any other form of cheating. An instructor who suspects a violation will discuss the matter confidentially with the student. If the matter remains unresolved, the issue will be referred to the Journalism Department Chairperson and the Academic Integrity Committee. Consequences of violating the policy may include failing the assignment, failing the course or a recommendation of suspension or expulsion from the college.
JOURNALISM DEPARTMENT
ACADEMIC HONESTY DEFINITIONS
Cheating
Unless told otherwise by their instructors, students should assume that examinations are to be completed without the use of books, notes, or conversation with others. Students who intentionally use or attempt to use unauthorized information in any academic exercise, including exams, are cheating.
Fabricating
Fabrication is the unauthorized and conscious falsification of information in an academic exercise. For example, it is academically dishonest to “invent” a quote, a scene or a statistic.
Facilitating Academic Dishonesty
Students who make their work available for another student to submit as his or her own, whether exactly as is or in altered form, are facilitating academic dishonesty, as are students who allow others to copy their answers on examinations. Aiding and abetting other students’ dishonesty is a serious breach of the academic honesty policy and is itself punishable just as cheating, fabricating, and plagiarizing are.
Plagiarizing
The Random House Webster’s Dictionary of the English Language defines plagiarism as “the unauthorized use of the language and thought of another author and the representation of them as one’s own.” Any conscious failures to accurately and completely document all uses of source materials constitute academic dishonesty. Source materials may include but are not limited to, printed books, magazines and newspapers, electronic media, oral reports, speeches statistical information or analyses, anecdotal comments, visual media, musical performances, theatrical performances and official or legal documents.