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As a member of the Our Lady of the Lake College community, you are bound by the Community Creed, Honor Code, and Honor Statement set forth in your student handbook:

Community Creed

Our Lady of the Lake College, established by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, is an interactive community dedicated to personal, academic, and professional excellence. This is best accomplished within an environment of mutual respect and civility, self-restraint, concern for others, and academic integrity. By choosing to join this community, I accept the obligation to live by these common values and commit myself to the following principles. 

As a member of the Our Lady of the Lake College community:

    • I will commit myself to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding with personal integrity and academic honesty;

    • I will respect the sanctity of the learning environment and avoid disruptive and deceitful behavior toward other members of the campus community;

    • I will contribute to the development of a caring community where compassion for others and freedom of thought and expression are valued;

    • I will support a culture of diversity by respecting the rights and dignity of those who differ from myself;

    • I will embrace the concept of a civil community, which respects the rights and property of others and abhors violence, theft, and exploitation of others;

    • I will honor, challenge and contribute to the tradition of excellence left by those who preceded me and work to leave this a better place for those who follow.

By endorsing these common principles, I accept a moral obligation to behave in ways that contribute to a civil campus environment and resolve to support this behavior in others. This commitment to civility is my promise to the Our Lady of the Lake College and its community of scholars.

Honor Code

The Student Honor Code

We, the student body of Our Lady of the Lake College, embrace the idea that honor is an intangible quality which, if it pervades all phases of campus life, tends to foster a spirit of dignity and personal integrity. Upon enrolling at the college, we become part of the Our Lady of the Lake College Honor System. We realize that honor must be cultivated, that its success depends upon the combined and cooperative efforts of the college(s) administration, faculty, staff and students. Inherent in the honor system is the premise that students will not perform or tolerate any violations of the Regulations Governing Student Behavior published in the college’s Student Handbook. As responsible members of the Our Lady of the Lake College community, each of us freely accepts and proudly endorses this, our code of honor.

Approved for publication with revision by the Faculty Assembly on 5-26-98

 Honor Statement

I will not give or receive any unauthorized aid on any examination or paper. In the event that I witness anyone else doing so; I will report him/her immediately to the instructor and/or the appropriate division director.

Approved for publication by the Faculty Assembly on 5-26-98

Plagiarism is covered in the Student Handbook under Academic Dishonesty (Section 2.11.2.2):

2.11.2.2 Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty is a clear violation of academic integrity and implies conscious deception on the part of the student performing the dishonest act.

 

Types of Academic Dishonesty

Cheating:

Cheating is the fraudulent premeditated or unpremeditated act of deception on the part of a student that misrepresents his/her mastery of information on an academic exercise.

Examples:

  • Copying from another student's exam paper or allowing another student to copy from their exam paper.

  • Using notes, course textbook or other materials not authorized for use during an exam.

  • Participation in cheating or lying in reference to clinical laboratory settings, classroom assignments, or computer assignments, i.e. copying assignments, etc.

  • Giving or receiving information without authority from or to any other person during an exam.

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Academic Misconduct:

Academic misconduct is the deliberate violation of college policies and procedures by students.

Examples:

  • Unauthorized possession of an examination either by stealing, buying, selling or giving away all or part of the exam, including reconstruction and/or distribution of exam.

  • Falsification of information given on college documents and/or records.

  • Changing, altering or being an accessory to the act of altering a test paper grade, a grade in a grade book, other work for which a grade is given or other college official academic records which relate to grades.

  • Conduct which is inappropriate both in the clinical laboratory setting and classroom such as abusive language, threats, assault and battery, and disruptive talking.

  • Chemical impairment in the college or clinical laboratory setting.

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Fabrication:

Fabrication is the intentional use of false or invented information, data or research with the intent to deceive.

Examples:

  • Submitting as your own any academic exercise that was prepared in full or partially by another person. (e.g. written nursing care plans, case studies, computer assignments or other written work).

  • Citing information in a formal paper not taken from the reference indicated.

  • Listing references not utilized to research or complete the academic exercise.

  • Permitting another student to substitute for oneself, to take a test or doing so for another student.

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Plagiarism:

Plagiarism is submitting someone else's work for credit and utilizing their words, ideas or data without acknowledging the information through proper use of references.

Examples:

  • The undocumented use of a person or author's main idea from a reference utilized in one's own work.

  • The undocumented paraphrasing of an author's actual words without proper acknowledgment through specific references.

  • The undocumented, verbatim use of someone's actual words or ideas without using quotation marks as well as not crediting the source through accurate references.

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Penalties for plagiarism fall under Sanction for Violation of Regulations(Section 2.12.2):

These are the penalties that may be imposed by the administration of Our Lady of the Lake College. Other penalties may be imposed at the discretion of individual faculty members:

 

2.12.2 Sanctions for Violation of Regulations

 

Failure by a student to adhere to the "Regulations Governing Student Behavior" will subject the student to one or a combination of more than one of the following sanctions:

Reprimand:

Official warning in writing that continuation or repetition of violation or inappropriate behavior may result in a more severe sanction.

Loss of Privilege:

Students may be sanctioned and prohibited from the use of certain college facilities, i.e. Skills Laboratory, Learning Resources Center, etc.

Restitution:

Student's misconduct may require reimbursement or otherwise compensate another for damage or loss of property.

Probation:

Student may receive a formal written warning that the conduct is in violation of college policies and the student's standing as a student is in jeopardy.

Suspension:

Student status may be terminated at the college for no less than the remainder of the semester.

Dismissal:

Student status may be terminated at the college permanently or for an indefinite period of time.

The above sanctions do not preclude other disciplinary actions that may be deemed warranted by the college.

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Tuesday April 01, 2008