The University of Tennessee at Martin has chosen as its
primary objective quality undergraduate education. Commitment to this objective
must include an obligation by all members of the University community to
promote and protect the highest standards of integrity in study, research,
instruction and evaluation. Dishonesty or unethical behavior does not belong at
an institution dedicated to the promotion of knowledge and learning. Integrity
of the academic process requires fair and impartial evaluation by faculty and
honest academic conduct by students. A student may be found to have violated
this obligation if he/she:
(1) Refers
during an academic evaluation to materials, sources, or devices not authorized
by the instructor;
(2) Provides
assistance during an academic evaluation or assignment to another person in a
manner not authorized by the instructor;
(3) Receives assistance during an academic
evaluation or assignment from another person in a manner not authorized by the
instructor;
(4) Possesses, buys,
sells, obtains, or uses a copy of any materials intended to be used as an
instrument of academic evaluation in advance of its administration;
(5) Acts as a substitute for another person
in any academic evaluation or assignment;
(6) Utilizes another person as a substitute
for him/herself in any academic evaluation or assignment;
(7) Practices any form of deceit in an
academic evaluation or assignment;
(8) Depends on the aid of others, in a manner
expressly prohibited by the instructor, in the research, preparation, creation,
writing, performing, or publication of work to be submitted for academic credit
or evaluation;
(9) Provides aid to
another person, knowing such aid is expressly prohibited by the instructor, in
the research, preparation, creation, writing, performing, or publication of
work to be submitted for academic credit or evaluation;
(10) Indulges in plagiarism by presenting as
one's own, for academic evaluation or assignment, the ideas, representations,
or works of another person or persons without customary and proper
acknowledgment of sources;
(11)
Submits the work of another person in a manner that represents the work to be
one's own;
(12) Knowingly permits
one's work to be submitted by another person without the instructor's
authorization;
(13) Attempts
deceitfully to influence or change one's academic evaluation or record;
or
(14) Indulges in conduct that is
so disruptive as to infringe upon the rights of an instructor or fellow
students during a class or examination session.
