Academic Dishonesty
As a student, you are responsible for meeting the academic standards and expectations established by each of your instructors. This includes maintaining standards of academic integrity.
What is Academic Dishonesty?
Academic dishonesty at Bellevue College includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, and fabrication.
- Cheating includes any attempt to give or obtain unauthorized help relating to the completion of an academic assignment. This can include working with a classmate on homework or a take-home test without permission from the instructor.
- Plagiarism includes using the ideas, writings, or work of another person, without proper citation, to complete an academic assignment. It can also include submitting projects, papers and other assignments for credit when you have submitted the same assignment for credit in another course. The Academic Success Center offers tips for avoiding plagiarism.
- Fabrication includes falsifying data, information, or citations in completing an academic assignment. It also includes providing false or deceptive information to an instructor about completing an assignment.
Check your class syllabi to see expectations for each assignments and the consequences for academic dishonesty. Most instructors give the assignment a zero. Instructors can also refer you to Student Conduct for academic dishonesty under the Student Conduct Code of Bellevue College (WAC 132H-126).
Other Types of Dishonesty
Bellevue College also prohibits other types of dishonesty. These could include, but are not limited to:
- Forging, altering, or submitting falsified (fake) documents. For example, forging a parent, instructor or counselor signature on registration forms
- Misusing any college document, record, or instrument of identification
- Tampering with an election conducted by or for college students
- Furnishing false information, or failing to furnish correct information, in response to the request or requirement of a college officer or employee. The most common example is giving a fake name to avoid trouble
Resources and Support
- Academic Success Center
- Disability Resource Center
- Math Lab
- Science Study Center
- Tutoring
- Writing Lab
Reporting Dishonesty
If you have questions about whether a behavior is a possible violation, contact the Manager of Student Care and Community Standards.