I expect academic honesty from myself and all my students. Violation of standards of
ethical conduct with respect to your academic endeavors disrupts the integrity of the
academic enterprise and is an insult to everything for which Creighton University stands.
The Creighton University College of Business Administration has an academic honesty
policy that describes the importance of honesty in your writing and the established
penalties for abusing that policy. See Academic Honesty Policy
(WARNING: this link takes you away from this website).
Academic Dishonesty includes (but is not limited to!) misrepresentation of the work of
others as one's own; dishonesty in testing; violating authorized guidelines established by
instructors for individual assignments; sabotaging or damaging the work of others; or
engaging in dishonesty in other academic work. This definition applies to writing,
calculating, quantitative analysis, and creation of paper or digital products, using
physical or digital sources.
Oregon State University has a very
nice succinct description of five ways in which academic dishonesty manifests itself:
(direct quotation from the OSU website, as linked)
1."CHEATING- use or attempted use of unauthorized materials, information or study
aids OR an act of deceit by which a student attempts to misrepresent mastery of academic
effort or information. This includes unauthorized copying or collaboration on a test or
assignment or using prohibited materials and texts.
2."FABRICATION- falsification or invention of any information (including
falsifying research, inventing or exaggerating data and listing incorrect or fictitious
references).
3."ASSISTING- helping another commit an act of academic dishonesty. This includes
paying or bribing someone to acquire a test or assignment, changing someone's grades or
academic records, or taking a test/doing an assignment for someone else (or allowing
someone to do these things for you).
4."TAMPERING- altering or interfering with evaluation instruments and documents.
5."PLAGIARISM- representing the words or ideas of another person as one's own OR
presenting someone else's words, ideas, artistry or data as one's own. This includes
copying another person's work (including unpublished material) without appropriate
referencing, presenting someone else's opinions and theories as one's own, or working
jointly on a project, then submitting it as one's own." [Citation:
Oregon State University, "Academic Issues", http://osu.orst.edu/admin/stucon/achon.htm,
accessed August, 2002.]
