Academic Integrity Policy

Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the inclusion, in any paper, draft, assignment, presentation, or other work, of someone else’s product, words, ideas, or data and representing it as one’s own work. Examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to: the taking of any portion of a document, article, or book and representing it as one’s own work, the lifting of a well-phrased sentence and including such sentence without crediting the author, or including another person’s ideas as an example of one’s own thought or work. Plagiarism includes using unpublished work as well as published sources, using another’s term paper, or handing in a product that includes substantial work by another individual or agency, including internet services.
Self-Plagiarism: Self-Plagiarism is using one’s own work from a previous assignment without the permission of the current instructor and/or without properly citing this information.
Cheating: Cheating includes, but is not limited to, using unauthorized materials in an examination; looking at another student’s test paper to copy answers; using or supplying questions or answers from an examination to be given or in progress that have not been authorized for distribution; having a person other than the one registered and taking the course, stand in at an examination or at any other graded activity; collaborating with others on projects where such collaboration is expressly forbidden; using resources, including electronic resources, forbidden by a faculty member. Cheating also includes facilitating any of these actions.
Fabrication: Fabrication includes, but is not limited to, submitting a paper, a lab report, computer data, or other academic exercises with falsified, invented, or fictitious information.
Academic sabotage or obstruction: Academic sabotage is an intentional interference with the work or progress of other students or researchers, and may include, but is not limited to, intentionally destroying or interfering with the work of others, stealing or defacing library materials or materials owned by others, and altering or copying computer files or documents owned by others without authorization.
Unauthorized use or misuse of materials: Unauthorized use or misuse of materials include, but are not limited to, reading, duplicating, copying, removing, or any other unauthorized use or misuse of a document, record, book, ledger, file, printout, tape, cartridge, disc, key, or any property maintained by any individual(s) or department(s) of PAU.
Forgery: Forgery is the unauthorized creation of an imitation of, forging, or any other unauthorized alteration of, a document, electronic file, form, record, identification, or any property maintained by any individual(s) or department(s) of PAU.
Grade tampering, exam fraud, or other acts of dishonesty: Academic misconduct includes other acts of dishonesty or impropriety occurring in the course of academic activities, such as grade tampering, or obtaining or distributing any part of any exam materials or any information about an exam, or knowingly providing false information.
Professional Ethics & Dispositional Issues: Violations of professional ethics in the context of earning academic credit including, but not limited to, violation of the ethical code or professional code of the profession that a student is preparing to enter (for example the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct and the ACA Code of Ethics), using unethical research practices, and violation of professional ethics are also policy violation at PAU. Uncorrected dispositional issues incompatible for the professional fields (Counseling & Psychology) are also policy violations.