Academic Dishonesty Policy
The maintenance of academic integrity and quality education is the responsibility of each student at Santa
Rosa de Lima Catholic School. Cheating or plagiarism in connection with any academic programs at SRDLCS
is an offense for which a student may be expelled, suspended or given a less severe disciplinary sanction.
Academic dishonesty is an especially serious offense and diminishes the quality of scholarship and
defrauds those who depend on the integrity of Santa Rosa de Lima’s programs.
Such dishonesty includes, but is not limited to:
Lying
Lying is communicating untruths or misrepresentations in order to gain an unfair academic or employment
advantage.
It includes, but is not limited to:
- falsifying information;
- misrepresenting one’s own research;
- providing false or misleading information in order to be excused from classes or assignments; or,
- intentionally underperforming on an assignment or assessment
Cheating
Cheating is the act of wrongfully using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, study
aids, or the ideas or work of another in order to gain an unfair advantage.
It includes, but is not limited to:
- plagiarism on any assignment;
- giving unauthorized aid to another student or receiving unauthorized aid from another person on
tests, quizzes, assignments or examinations;
- using or consulting unauthorized materials or using unauthorized equipment or devices on tests,
quizzes, assignments or examinations;
- altering or falsifying any information on tests, quizzes, assignments or examinations;
- using any material portion of a paper or project to fulfill the requirements of more than one course
unless the student has received prior faculty permission to do so;
- working on any examination, test, quiz or assignment outside of the time constraints imposed;
- the unauthorized use of prescription medication to enhance academic performance;
- submitting an altered examination or assignment to an instructor for re-grading; or
- failing to adhere to an instructor’s specific directions with respect to the terms of academic
integrity or academic honesty.
“Plagiarism” occurs when a student, with intent to deceive or with reckless disregard for proper scholarly
procedures, presents any information, ideas or phrasing of another as if they were his/her own and/or
does not give appropriate credit to the original source. Proper scholarly procedures require that all quoted
material be identified by quotation marks or indentation on the page, and the source of information and
ideas, if from another, must be identified and be attributed to that source. Students are responsible for
learning proper scholarly procedures.
The term “assignment” includes any work, required or volunteered, submitted for review, academic credit,
and/or disciplinary sanction.
All academic work undertaken by a student must be completed independently unless the faculty member
or other responsible authority expressly authorizes collaboration with another.
Stealing
Stealing is the act of intentionally taking or appropriating the property of another, including academic
work, without consent or permission and with the intent to keep or use the property without the
permission of the owner or the rightful possessor.
