This page provides information and resources on preventing or reducing cheating and plagiarism, detecting cheating and plagiarism, and understanding student and faculty rights and responsibilities at WSU. For resources available outside of WSU, click here.

 

OTL Cheating & Plagiarism Initiative.

The OTL is currently working with the WSU community on cheating and plagiarism issues. This recent initiative includes:

• developing a brochure to inform students about academic integrity and the university's postion on cheating and plagiarism. Click here to link to the Academic Integrity Brochure.
• forming and meeting with a working group of interested faculty and staff to explore the topic and create resources for WSU faculty.
• providing articles for the OTL newsletters during the 2004-2005 academic year which address issues on cheating and plagiarism.
• creating and maintaining a Blackboard cheating and plagiarism Web site to allow the working group and other interested members of the WSU community to share resources and to exchange information in a password protected site.

For those interested in joining the Blackboard Web site or the working group please contact Kristi Jordan at OTL (577-6448).

WSU Policies and Procedures.

Student Rules and Regulations.
Academic integrity and student responsibility.

University Academic Rules and Regulations.
General university academic rules and regulations. 

For general information for each School or College: See Academic Regulations for each within the University Bulletin. . 

WSU Academic Integrity Brochure
WSU brochure prepared by the Committee for Academic Integrity in conjunction with the OTL. Defines academic misconduct, presents the process and possible sanctions for formally resolving issues of academic misconduct, as well as strategies to prevent misconduct.

WSU Student Code of Conduct
WSU policy statement on student due process which includes campus-wide definitions, guidelines and sanctions in the case of violations of university regulations, including, but not restricted to academic dishonesty.

WSU College or Department
Cheating & Plagiarism Policies.

Biomedical Engineering.
General Policies. See section on Cheating and Plagiarism.

Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies.
Academic Dishonesty Policy.

Computer Science.
Link to Department of Computer Science Policy on Academic Dishonesty.

English Department.
Link to English Departemnt PDF file for Plagiarism Policy.

Interdisciplinary Studies.
Guidelines for dealing with plagiarism.

Law School.
Academic Regulations for Law School. See page 19 for policies on cheating and plagiarism.

School of Medicine.
Link to School of Medicine Policies (see Student Responsibilities for policy on cheating).

Psychology.
Policy on Academic Dishonesty.

 

 

Last modified September 1, 2005.