As quoted in the Academic Integrity portion of University of Pittsburgh, quoted from this website, it is important to understand the following:

       Academic Integrity-

       University of Pittsburgh

     The University expects and requires each student to be fully aware of his personal responsibility for maintaining complete integrity in all academic work. Cheating, plagiarism, forgery, and other forms of academic dishonesty are serious offenses, subject to prompt action by the Vice President for Academic Affairs.
     A student has an obligation to exhibit honesty and to respect the ethical standards of the University of Pittsburgh  in carrying out his or her academic assignments. A student may be found to have violated this obligation if he or she:

  1. Refers during an academic evaluation to materials or sources, or employs devices, not authorized by the instructor.
  2. Provides assistance during an academic evaluation to another person in a manner not authorized by the instructor.
  3. Receives assistance during an academic evaluation from another person in a manner not authorized by the instructor.
  4. Engages in unauthorized possession, buying, selling, obtaining, or using a copy of any materials intended to be used as an instrument of academic evaluation in advance of its administration.
  5. Acts as a substitute for another person in any academic evaluation process.
  6. Utilizes a substitute in any academic evaluation procedures.
  7. Practices any form of deceit in an academic evaluation proceeding.
  8. Depends on the aid of others in a manner expressly prohibited by the instructor, in the research, preparation, creation, writing, performing, or publication of work to be submitted for academic credit or evaluation.
  9. Provides aid to another person, knowing such aid is expressly prohibited by the instructor, in the research, preparation, creation, writing, performing, or publication of work to be submitted for academic credit or evaluation.
  10. Presents as one's own, for academic evaluation, the ideas, representation, or words of another person or persons without customary and proper acknowledgement of sources.
  11. Submits the work of another person in a manner that represents the work to be one's own.
  12. Knowingly permits one's work to be submitted by another person without the instructor's authorization.
  13. Attempts to influence or change one's academic evaluation or record for reasons other than achievement or merit.
  14. Indulges, during a class (or examination) session in which one is a student, in conduct which is so disruptive as to infringe upon the rights of the instructor or fellow students.
  15. Fails to cooperate, if called upon, in the investigation or disposition of any allegation of dishonesty pertaining to another student, or any other breach of a student's obligation to exhibit honesty.
  16. Violates the canons of academic ethics. A faculty member also accepts an obligation, in relation to his or her students, to discharge his or her duties in a fair and conscientious manner in accordance with the ethical standing generally recognized within the academic community.

    Student and faculty violations of the Academic Integrity principle, procedures by which charges may be brought to the Academic Integrity Review Board, and sanctions, which may be imposed upon a finding that an offense related to academic integrity has been committed.

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