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Academic Integrity at GW
The GW Code of Academic Integrity was developed by the GW community of students, faculty, librarians, and administrators and initiated in the 1996-1997 academic year. To administer, promote, and manage the code, an Academic Integrity Office and an Academic Integrity Council were formed. More information about these bodies can be found at the GW Academic Integrity Web Site http://www.gwu.edu/~ntegrity/
The preamble of the Code reads:
We, the Students, Faculty, Librarians and Administration of The George Washington University, believing academic honesty to be central to the mission of the University, commit ourselves to its high standards and to the promotion of academic integrity. Commitment to academic honesty upholds the mutual respect and moral integrity that our community values and nurtures. To this end, we have established The George Washington University Code of Academic Integrity.
The code identifies five types of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism is one of these categories:
- Cheating - intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise; copying from another student's examination; submitting work for an in-class examination that has been prepared in advance; representing material prepared by another as one's own work; submitting the same work in more than one course without prior permission of both instructors; violating rules governing administration of examinations; violating any rules relating to academic conduct of a course or program.
- Fabrication - intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any data, information, or citation in an academic exercise.
- Plagiarism - intentionally representing the words, ideas, or sequence of ideas of another as one's own in any academic exercise; failure to attribute any of the following: quotations, paraphrases, or borrowed information.
- Falsification and forgery of University academic documents - knowingly making a false statement, concealing material information, or forging a University official's signature on any University academic document or record. Such academic documents or records may include transcripts, add-drop forms, requests for advanced standing, requests to register for graduate-level courses, etc. (Falsification or forgery of non-academic University documents, such as financial aid forms, shall be considered a violation of the non-academic student disciplinary code.)
- Facilitating academic dishonesty - intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of academic dishonesty.
If you suspect a student has plagiarized, please see the "Procedures for Reporting Plagiarism."
More Information
To see how another university addresses academic integrity in the context of responsible research and writing, visit Princeton University's Academic Integrity This is an online version of a booklet with the same name distributed by the Office of the Dean of the College. The booklet begins with a presentation of Princeton’s Honor Code and then explains how to properly cite and integrate words and ideas of other’s into one’s work. The booklet ends with a discussion of the disciplinary process for breaking Princeton’s Honor Code.
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