1. Academic Integrity

2. What Is Academic Integrity ?
Academic integrity means honesty
and responsibility in scholarship.
Academic assignments exist to
help students learn; grades exist
to show how fully this goal is
attained. Therefore all work and all
grades should result from the
student’s own understanding and
effort. (“What is academic,” n.d.)

3. What Is Academic Integrity ?
Hodges University adheres to the
International Center for Academic
Integrity’s definition of academic
integrity as the commitment to certain
core values: honesty, trust, fairness,
respect, and responsibility.

4. Honesty
The quest for truth and knowledge
requires intellectual and personal
honesty in learning, teaching, research
and service.

5. Trust
Academic Institutions must foster a
climate of mutual trust in order to
stimulate the free exchange of ideas.

6. Fairness
Treat students, faculty and staff
according to HU standards and
policies, administered in an impartial
manner.

7. Respect
Foster an environment that enables
honest and open communication, free
from harassment and intimidation,
where alternative points of view are
treated with consideration, and the
diversity of our academic community is
appreciated, and where the work of
others is acknowledged through the
proper identification of sources.

8. Responsibility
All members of the university
community are held accountable for
their work and actions. Academically
dishonest behavior is not tolerated and
is viewed as a breach of community
ethical standards.

9. What Does Academic
Integrity Mean to Me?
As a student, to have academic integrity
means that you have adopted principles or
standards that consistently govern how you
pursue your school work. A student with
academic integrity earns a degree with
honest effort, and knows that this degree is
a true accomplishment reflecting years of
hard work and genuine learning. Academic
integrity requires you to develop essential
skills including research, writing, and
documenting.

10. It is not always easy to know what
choices to make in school. There are
many questions with answers that may
be unclear to you.

11. Things you don’t want to do
1. Plagiarism
2. Cheating
3. Fabrication
4. Unauthorized collaboration
5. Participating in academically dishonest activities
6. Facilitating academic dishonesty

12. Plagiarism
any attempt to convey another’s work
as one’s own original thought. It is the
use of another person’s or
organization’s words or concepts
without giving the appropriate credit to
that person or organization.

13. Plagiarism
Plagiarism can be intentional or
unintentional but regardless of the
intent, the attempt is a breach of
academic integrity. Students can avoid
unintentional plagiarism by carefully
following accepted scholarly practices.

14. Plagiarism
For example, notes taken for papers and
research projects should accurately record
sources of material to be cited,
appropriately quoted, paraphrased or
summarized, and papers and research
projects should acknowledge these sources
in the appropriate places in the text of the
paper as well as in a references page at the
end of the paper, in accordance with
accepted citation practices.

15. Plagiarism
The following sources require citation:
• Word-for-word quotation from a source
• Paraphrasing others’ words and ideas
• Audio, video, digital, or live exchanges of ideas,
dialogue, or information
The Hodges University Style Guide provides
proper APA citation information. Additional
assistance can be found through Academic
Achievement Services, the Library, and on
the Library web page.

16. Plagiarism
Following the Hodges Style Guide will
help students develop writing skills
that demonstrate credibility by
avoiding plagiarism and academic
dishonesty. Following these guidelines
also improves chances of earning
better grades, saves time, and builds
an important set of skills for the
future.

17. Plagiarism
Following the guide will help students:
• Develop writing skills for courses and all
writing.
• Lessen formatting problems.
• Increase credibility.
• Avoid plagiarism and academic dishonesty.

18. Cheating
intentionally using or attempting to
use unauthorized materials,
information, or study aids in any
academic coursework.

19. Cheating
Examples of Cheating include, but are
not limited to:
• Unauthorized use of notes, text, internet, or other aids
during an examination
• Copying from another student’s academic work
• Unauthorized communication during an examination
• Handing in the same paper for more than one course
without explicit permission of the instructor
• Intentionally viewing a test before it is administered
• Storing notes in a portable electronic device for use during
an examination

20. Fabrication
intentional falsification,
misrepresentation, or invention of any
information, data, or citation in an
academic assignment.

21. Fabrication
Examples of fabrication include, but
are not limited to:
• Inventing data or facts for an
assignment
• Altering the results of a lab
experiment or survey
• Citing a source in a references list
that was not used

22. Unauthorized collaboration
when students submit individual
academic works that are substantially
similar to one another. While students
may use similar resources, the
analysis, interpretation, and reporting
of the data must be each student’s
independent work.

23. Unauthorized collaboration
Examples of unauthorized
collaboration include, but are not
limited to:
• Working on a take-home examination or
assignment with another student without
express permission of the professor
• Completing an academic assignment with
the help of another student, and taking
full credit

24. Participating in academically
dishonest activities
taking an action with the intent of
gaining an unfair advantage.

25. Participating in academically
dishonest activities
Examples of academically dishonest
activities include, but are not limited
to:
• Misrepresenting oneself or one’s circumstances to
a professor
• Intentionally missing an examination or
assignment deadline to gain an unfair advantage
• Stealing an examination
• Selling, loaning, or distributing materials for the
purpose of cheating, plagiarism or any other
academically dishonest acts
• Purchasing a pre-written paper

26. Facilitating academic
dishonesty
intentionally or knowingly helping to
violate any provision of this policy.

27. Facilitating academic
dishonesty
Examples of facilitating academic
dishonesty include, but are not limited
to:
• Doing academic work for another
student
• Making available previously used
academic work including
examinations to another student to
submit as his or her own

28. Sanctions
Students found to have breached
academic integrity will be subject to
academic and administrative
sanctions.

29. Sanctions
Academic sanctions are related to the
grade, academic standing and honors.
Hodges University is committed to
academic integrity and seeks to
develop a student’s integrity through
continued academic development.

30. Sanctions
Administrative sanctions are related to
the position of the students within the
University, such as leadership positions
within student organizations, and will
be handled by the Dean of Students.

31. Sanctions
Repeat violations of the Academic
Honesty Policy will not be tolerated.
Sanctions are imposed to reflect the
impact of academic dishonesty on the
university as a whole.
– For more on sanctions, see the
Academic Honesty Policy.

32. Tips for making research a
little less painful
When researching:
1. know what you're looking at
2. email good citations and articles to yourself as
you find them
3. keep track of what you've done and what
worked
4. take good notes
5. keep things in one place
6. print out web pages that you plan to use as
sources for your assignment (UCLA Library, n.d.)

33. Quick tips for your plan and
your time
• Estimate how much time you think it
will take to do your assignment and
double it. This may sound overkill, but
padding your time could help you deal
with obstacles like writer’s block, a dying
printer, or other types of issues. Besides,
if you finish early you can concentrate on
going out and having a good time while
the rest of your classmates are stressing.

34. Quick tips for your plan and
your time
• Break your assignment down into
small parts and set mini-deadlines for
yourself leading to the instructor's
deadline. Getting all the little pieces done
will help you complete the final version on
time and help you avoid stressing out as
the instructor's deadline approaches. This
might sound kinda dorky, but it'll work.
Check out UCLA’s The Assignment
Calculator which does just that!

35. Quick tips for your plan and
your time
• Look over all your syllabi at the
beginning of the quarter and stick
due dates for assignments in your
calendar or mobile device. Don't let
deadlines surprise you.
• Attend a time management
workshop or other workshop for
more tips and practical ideas.
– Workshops at Hodges (UCLA Library,
n.d.)

36. Quick tips for keeping
things on track
Think about how your assignment is going
so you can adjust your plan before it's too
late.
Ask yourself:
• Do I really understand the
assignment?
If you have any question at all about
whether or not you understand the
assignment, talk to your professor or T.A.
as soon as you can. Avoid wasting a lot of
time going in the wrong direction.

37. Quick tips for keeping
things on track
• Am I spending too much time
researching?
Remember that you still have to get the
assignment done. Don't leave analyzing
the information and writing the paper or
constructing the project until the last
minute. Besides, part of being a good
researcher is knowing when you've found
enough—know when to move on.

38. Quick tips for keeping
things on track
• Am I completely lost and can't find
any information?
It's easy to get lost or feel overwhelmed
when there's access to so much
information. Sometimes the library can
seem like a chaotic labyrinth, but it's
probably one of the most organized places
that you'll ever come across, which makes
it easy to find stuff—really, it's true.

39. Quick tips for keeping
things on track
• Am I completely lost and can't find
any information?
Becoming familiar with how information is
organized in the library and on the library
web site will save you time and
frustration. A few ways that you can get
help with library research is by speaking
with a librarian at the reference desk, by
making an individual research
appointment or by chatting with a
librarian online.

40. Here are some things that you
should consult your professors
about
• Turning in an assignment completed for a
different class
• Authorized and unauthorized "group work"
• Not understanding the assignment or content,
having problems getting started, and other
resolvable roadblocks
• Remember to read the policies and ask your
professors or the Dean if you have questions.
They're here to help you, and would much rather
answer your questions early on than find you in
trouble later. (UCLA Library, n.d.).

41. Quick tips for keeping
things on track
• Is my paper or project starting to
come together?
As you get closer to your deadlines, are
things starting to gel? If not, find someone
to bounce ideas around with like a
classmate, a friend, a family member, a
tutor, a T.A., a professor… (UCLA Library,
n.d.)

42. Tutorial Design &
Development
This tutorial is based on the Academic
Integrity tutorial developed by the
University of Alaska Anchorage and Bruin
Success with Less Stress from the UCLA
Library. They graciously provided Hodges
University with permission to use their
design concept and content for the basis of
this tutorial.

43. References
UCLA Library. (n.d.). Bruin success with less stress. Retrieved from
http://unitproj.library.ucla.edu/col/bruinsuccess/
University of Oklahoma. (n.d.). What is academic integrity? Retrieved from
http://integrity.ou.edu/index.html