Academic Integrity and Academic Misconduct

According to the Academic Misconduct Code of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: "Academic misconduct includes (a) cheating (using unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise or on national board examination), plagiarism, falsification of records, unauthorized possession of examinations, intimidation, and any and all other actions that may improperly affect the evaluation of a student's academic performance or achievement; (b) assisting others in any such act; or (c) attempts to engage in such act."

Related links:

A Student's Guide to Academic Integrity at the University of Oklahoma

A discussion of cheating and how faculty and students can stop it, from the online archives of the Chronicle of Higher Education.


Last updated 1-22-04 David M. Thompson