Academic Integrity Sanctions Matrix

• Hiding, covering up, or lying (false excuses for absence, delay, or illness).
• Signing someone else’s name on the attendance list.
• Citing most sources correctly but negligently leaving portions of the citation out.
• Aiding and abetting in any level 1 violation.
• Any prior academic integrity violation(s) may result in a sanction or sanctions at a higher level than is recommended for the new offense under these guidelines.

1. Written warning copying the dean.

And

2. AI/Ethics workshop and Reflection paper and Community Service Hours (15 hours).

• Gaining unauthorized access to another student’s assessments.
• Circulating/sharing other students’ academic assessments without consent.
• Citing many sources correctly but not citing other sources.
• Making up a citation to make your work sound more credible or saying things that the original source never said.
• Paraphrasing multiple sources and stitching them together without citation, making it sound entirely like your own.
• Reusing portions or sections of your own work and not citing your previous works (essentially claiming the reused portions as original).
• Falsifying or creating fake data for assessments.
• Unauthorized collaboration in an otherwise individual assignment/project.
• Aiding and abetting in any level 2 violation.
• Any prior academic integrity violation(s) (including lower-level violations) may result in a sanction or sanctions at a higher level than is recommended for the new offense under these guidelines.

1. Written warning copying the dean.

And 

2. Community Service Hours (25 hours) AI/Ethics workshop and Reflection paper.

And

3. No overload and no independent studies for one semester and the following winter/summer session or prohibited from taking courses in the following winter/summer session.

• Falsifying or creating fake data for research.
• Using or attempting to use unauthorized material or devices on an examination.
• Gaining or providing unauthorized access to any University academic records belonging to self or others (including examination materials).
• Re-using an entire work of your own for another purpose or publication and claiming it as original.
• Using someone else’s work, but changing words and phrases to make it sound different.
• Copying substantial portions of other people’s work and claiming them as their own work. Students may not have copied someone else’s entire work, but copied many sentences, paragraphs, and sections and claimed them as their own.
• Cheating or attempting to cheat whether individually or as part of a group of students.
• Arranging to have another person, complete one’s work such as papers, reports, projects, and so on and submit it as one’s own work.
• Aiding and abetting in any level 3 violation.
• Any prior academic integrity violation(s) (including lower-level violations) may result in a sanction or sanctions at a higher level than is recommended for the new offense under these guidelines.

Sanction A

1. One-course reduction without the option of an overload.

And

2. Probation/deferred suspension for one year. During that year, if any section of the code of academic ethics or code of student conduct is violated, the student will be automatically suspended the following semester.

Or

Sanction B

1. Suspension for one semester.

• Creating, altering, or corrupting any academic record or documents including unofficial transcripts, certificates, accommodation letters, and so on.
• Impersonating or allowing oneself to be impersonated in a high-stakes activity like an examination, major declaration, or scholarship interview.
• Offering bribes to any university employees to obtain a grade change or to gain an unfair advantage over others.
• Copying, stealing or purchasing an entire document that someone else wrote and claiming it as your own.
• Engaging in financial trading or dealings related to exchanging, buying, or selling academic material, such as assignments, projects, and reports (contract cheating).
• Aiding and abetting in any level 4 violation.
• Any prior academic integrity violation(s) (including lower-level violations) may result in a sanction or sanctions at a higher level than is recommended for the new offense under these guidelines.