5 Academic Integrity: Academic Offences and Academic Offence Appeals Procedures
While members of the community are committed to promoting academic integrity, MSVU recognizes that offences will occur and procedures are needed to deal fairly with these offences. Academic offences are violations of academic integrity. These include, but are not limited to, plagiarism, cheating, and misrepresentation related to academic work. They are outlined in Section 2.2.23 (subsections 1 – 6) in the Undergraduate Calendar and Section 2.2.16 (subsections 1 – 6) in the Graduate Academic Calendar. Please familiarize yourself with this policy.
Key Takeaways
Your responsibilities as per academic integrity:
- in your academic work, meet the standards of academic integrity
- don’t commit integrity violations
What is meant by Integrity Violation?
An integrity violation happens when a student is “engaging in, attempting to engage in, or assisting others to engage or attempt to engage in conduct that violates the standard of academic integrity”. Some examples are:
- cheating and/or plagiarism
- fabrication
- forgery or falsification of documents
- assisting another student in committing an integrity violation
- infringement of copyright
- A note on copyright: in Canada, a work in fixed form is automatically copyrighted, which means it is owned by the person who created it. It doesn’t matter whether or not the work has a copyright symbol. This means that you can only reproduce works (such as an image for your paper) that explicitly state that they are free to use, or contain the conditions for reuse such as content with Creative Commons licences, or when you have asked for and received permission from the owner to use the work.
Please familiarize yourself with the definitions of each violation in the Academic Offenses sections. Click the following tab to read the contents:
Test Your Understanding
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