Academic Misconduct Policy

• Don't cheat. Cheating on anything will be dealt with as academic misconduct and handled accordingly. I won't just give a grade of zero. By the University's rules, I am obligated to hand over all suspected cases of academic misconduct to the University's Academic Misconduct Committee.

• I won't spend a lot of time trying to decide if you actually cheated. If I think cheating might have occurred, I will privately inform the people involved and simply give any evidence to the University's Academic Misconduct Committee and let them decide. This is what I am supposed to do and, frankly, it's the easiest way for me to deal with cheating.

• Discussion of assignments is acceptable, but do your own work. Near duplicate assignments will be considered cheating unless the assignment was restrictive enough to justify such similarities in independent work.

• Refer to the University's Code of Student Conduct (pdf) , especially the section on Judicial Procedures.