Aims Community College Students are expected to demonstrate qualities of morality, honesty, civility, honor, and respect. Behavior which violates these standards for which discipline may be imposed includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Cheating: copying or attempting to copy the academic work of another student (including, but not limited to, quizzes, examinations, assessment tests, and assignments); using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, notes, study aids or other devices for an academic examination or exercise; engaging or attempting to engage the assistance of another individual in misrepresenting the academic performance of a student; or communicating information in an unauthorized manner to another person for an academic examination or exercise.
Fabrication or Falsification: falsifying or fabricating any information, College document, record, or instrument of identification. Falsification is the alteration of information, while fabrication is the invention or counterfeiting of information.
Plagiarism: use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgement; unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person; or use of an agency engaged in the selling of term papers or other academic materials.
Complicity in Academic Dishonesty: helping or attempting to help another student to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
Falsifying Grade Reports: changing or destroying, or attempting to change or destroy, grades, scores, or markings on an examination or in an instructor’s or the College’s records.
Lying. Furnishing false information to any College official, faculty member or office.
Other: additional standards of conduct relating to academic honesty specified in writing by an academic division or department and/or instructor for a particular course.
See Student Code of Conduct, Aims Procedure 5-601A.