Academic Integrity Policy

As an academic community, the University of Illinois at Chicago is committed to providing an environment in which research, learning, and scholarship can flourish and in which all endeavors are guided by academic and professional integrity. All members of the campus community — students, staff, faculty, administrators — share the responsibility of insuring that these standards are upheld so that such an environment exists. Instances of academic misconduct by students, and as defined herein, shall be handled pursuant to the Student Disciplinary Policy. The following is the UIC policy on academic dishonesty which includes, but is not limited to:

  1. Cheating: either intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized information, people, or study aids in any academic exercise; providing to, or receiving from another person, any kind of unauthorized assistance on any examination or assignment.
  2. Fabricating: unauthorized falsification, reproduction, lack of attribution, or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.
  3. Facilitating academic dishonesty/plagiarism: intentionally or knowingly representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise.
  4. Offering bribes, favors, or threats: bribing, attempting to bribe, promising favors to or making threats against any person with the intention of affecting a record of a grade or evaluation of academic performance; any conspiracy with another person who then takes, or attempts to take action on behalf of, or at the direction of the student.
  5. Taking an examination by proxy: taking or attempting to take an exam for someone else is a violation by both the student enrolled in the course and the proxy or substitute.
  6. Grade tampering: any unauthorized change, attempt to change or alteration of grades.
  7. Submitting non-original works: submission or attempt to submit any written work, written in whole or in part, by someone other than the student.