Policy 06-001 Academic Conduct

Purpose and Scope

UCEAP students are expected to follow University of California rules and regulations on academic conduct. As enrolled UC students abroad, UCEAP participants should understand and subscribe to the principles of academic integrity and must be willing to bear individual responsibility for their work while studying abroad. This applies to:

• any academic work (written or otherwise) submitted to fulfill an academic requirement must represent a student’s original work; and
• any act of academic misconduct, such as cheating, fabrication, forgery, plagiarism, or facilitating academic dishonesty, will subject a student to disciplinary action.

The following are examples of academic misconduct which are strictly prohibited, by way of illustration only and not limitation.

CHEATING

• Fraud, deceit, or dishonesty in an academic assignment, or using or attempting to use materials that are unauthorized.
• Copying or attempting to copy from others during an exam or on an assignment.
• Communicating exam or coursework answers to another person.
• Storing unauthorized information for exams on a device, such as a smart watch, phone, or calculator, for use during an exam or unauthorized sharing.
• Using unauthorized materials or electronic devices, prepared answers, written notes, or concealed information during an exam.
• Allowing others to do an assignment or portion of an assignment for you, including the use of a commercial term paper service.
• Submission of the same assignment for more than one course without prior approval of all the instructors involved.
• Collaborating on an exam or assignment with any other person without prior approval from the instructor.
• Taking an exam for another person or having someone take an exam for you.
• Continuing to work on an exam after the instructor or proctor has announced that all students must stop working.

PLAGIARISM

• Plagiarism is intellectual theft—an author’s work is their property and must be respected by documentation. Plagiarism is the use of another’s ideas or words without proper attribution or credit.
• Copying a passage from the work of another, such as a book, article, film, graphic, website, content generated by software or artificial intelligence, or other source, into your coursework without quotation and citation.
• Use of the views, opinions, or insights of another without acknowledgment.
• Paraphrasing another’s characteristic or original phraseology, metaphor, or other literary device without acknowledgment or proper citation.

FALSE INFORMATION AND REPRESENTATION, FABRICATION, OR ALTERATION OF INFORMATION

• Furnishing false information in the context of an academic assignment.
• Failing to identify yourself honestly in the context of an academic obligation.
• Fabricating or altering information or data and presenting it as legitimate.
• Providing false or misleading information to an instructor or any other university official.

THEFT OR DAMAGE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• Sabotaging or stealing another person’s assignment, book, paper, notes, experiment, project, electronic hardware or software, or other work.
• Improper access to, or electronically interfering with, the property of another person or the University via computer or other means.
• Obtaining a copy of an exam or assignment prior to its approved release by the instructor, or a draft of another’s work without permission prior to publication.

ALTERATION OF UNIVERSITY DOCUMENTS

• Forgery of an instructor’s signature on a letter of recommendation or any other document.
• Creating or submitting to another party an altered transcript of grades or other university document or communication.
• Putting your name on another person’s exam or assignment.
• Altering a previously graded exam or assignment for purposes of a grade appeal or of gaining points in a re-grading process.

DISTRIBUTION OF LECTURE NOTES FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES

Selling, distributing, website posting, or publishing course lecture notes, handouts, readers, recordings, or other information provided by an instructor, or using them for any commercial purpose without the express permission of the instructor.