2020-2021 Undergraduate General Catalog


Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity is vital to the academic environment at Augustana because it involves the search for and acquisition of knowledge and understanding. Evaluation of each student’s level of knowledge, understanding, and ability to synthesize and integrate materials requires tangible assessment via reports, examinations, and homework. Any willful misrepresentation of the relation between the work being evaluated and the student’s actual state of knowledge is an act of academic dishonesty. The following is a partial list of examples:

  • Plagiarism
    • Using the exact language of someone else without the use of quotation marks and without giving proper credit to the author
    • Rearranging another’s ideas or material and presenting them as though they are one’s original work without giving appropriate acknowledgment
    • Submitting a document written by someone else as one’s own work
  • Paying for or obtaining another’s work and submitting it as one’s own
  • Giving or receiving answers to an exam
  • Copying, with or without another person’s knowledge, during an exam
  • Doing class assignments for someone else
  • Submitting a paper that has been purchased from a commercial research firm or the web
  • Fabricating items on a bibliography
  • Obtaining an unauthorized copy of a test in advance of its scheduled administration
  • Using unauthorized notes during an exam
  • Collaborating with other students on assignments when it is not permitted
  • Altering answers on a scored test and submitting it for a re-grade
  • Accessing and altering records in a grade book
  • Stealing class assignments from other students and submitting them as one’s own
  • Fabricating laboratory or research data
  • Destroying, stealing or sabotaging the work of other students
  • Resubmitting a previously graded assignment for a different course