📜 Academic Honesty Contract

Academic honesty is a fundamental principle of the educational process. It is essential to maintaining the value of the academic degree students receive and the credibility of the university.

Academic honesty is vital to the proper evaluation of the level of knowledge and understanding a student acquires in a course. This evaluation may be based on quizzes, exams, reports, homework, projects, discussions and any other assignments used by the faculty to ascertain the student’s command of the course material. Any act that invalidates the process of evaluation is an act of academic dishonesty.

EIU-Paris forbids all forms of academic dishonesty including cheating and plagiarism.

Examples of academic dishonesty include but are not limited to:

• Copying from another student’s assignment, enabling unauthorized access to test or assignment answers and use of false identity online.
• Plagiarism: representing another’s academic or creative work as your own, and incorporating another’s ideas, words, or phrasing without giving credit to the author.
• Alteration of official records.
• Changing already graded documents by hacking.
• Submission of assignments, reports, and projects mostly prepared by another student.
• Facilitation or assistance in any act of academic dishonesty.

Students caught engaging in academic dishonesty may be subject to failure for the assignment and/or additional disciplinary procedures as deemed fit.