New Mexico Tech

Department of Earth and Environmental Science

Geobiology

Spring 2009

Last update: January 20, 2009

Academic Honesty:

Academic Integrity is important in all the classes that you take. This class and lab will operate on an honor system. You are welcome (in fact, encouraged) to discuss laboratory assignments with your classmates or colleagues, but all the work that you turn in for this class must be your own.

Academic dishonesty is defined as an act of academic fraud. It could include: cheating, plagiarism, falsification, impersonation, obstruction, or giving assistance. The NMT policy on Academic Honesty provides for stiff penalties.

Examples: Exams: If you copy answers from another student, are caught with a crib sheet, or in any more creative way attempt to cheat on an exam you will immediately be given a failing grade for the course. Furthermore, we will petition the Dean of Students to have you placed on probation or suspended from school.

Labs and Homework:

Getting (or giving) help from (to) a colleague on an assignment if you are confused or stuck = OK
Copying any portion (or all) of an assignment or letting someone copy your assignment = not OK

Academic dishonesty is defined as an act of academic fraud. It could be any of the following:

cheating: the use of unauthorized material during a test, or the act of copying from another student;

plagiarism: the unauthorized use or use without proper citation of either someone’s published work, unpublished material in someone else’s computer files or material derived from the Internet;

theft: any form of unauthorized procurement of academic documents, e.g., exams, student reports;

falsification: any form of illegal alteration of academic documents for any purpose including improper alteration of experimental data obtained in the laboratory;

impersonation: the act of permitting another person to substitute for oneself at an examination;

obstruction: interference with or sabotage of the work of any other person through vandalism or theft;

assistance: the act of helping another to commit fraud in any of the above-mentioned ways.

The NMT policy on Academic Honesty provides for stiff penalties. Please take the time to learn what is expected of our students in each of these areas.

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