Policy on Academic Misconduct 

At Eastern Connecticut State University, we value personal integrity as fundamental to our interactions with each other. We place special weight on academic honesty in all of our intellectual pursuits because it is a value fundamental to academic life and scholarly practice. All members of the University community are obligated to uphold high standards of academic honesty in their scholarship and learning, and this obligation extends to students. 

Instructor’s Role: 

Instructors should inform their students in the course syllabus and during class time of course specific requirements and the penalties, the faculty may impose for academic misconduct as informed by their professional judgment. Instructors should also refer students to the definition of academic misconduct in the BOR/CSU Student Code of Conduct. 

Student’s Role: 

Students are expected to take personal responsibility for their intellectual work and to respect and acknowledge the ideas of others. Academic honesty means doing one’s own work and giving proper credit to others whose work and thoughts are drawn upon. It is the responsibility of each student to become familiar with what constitutes academic dishonesty and plagiarism and to avoid all forms of cheating and plagiarism. Students may not engage in any form of academic misconduct and are responsible for learning how to present the ideas of others in their own work and avoid all other forms of academic misconduct. For current documentation practices, consult the instructor or a style manual (e.g., APA, MLA). 

The BOR/CSU Student Code of Conduct definition of academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism, cheating, and acts of dishonesty. Academic misconduct may take many forms. The following list of behaviors is intended to represent the types of acts that constitute violations of this policy.