Handbook of Graduate Studies

VI.     ACADEMIC AND SCHOLARLY MISCONDUCT

VI.1  The Student Code specifies in great detail the University’s rules regarding cheating, plagiarism, and other forms of academic misconduct.  Among other things, it makes clear that anyone who allows someone else to copy work is just as guilty as the one who does the copying.  In written work, any use of someone else’s thought, words, or ideas (including material from the Internet) without proper citation constitutes plagiarism.

VI.2  It is everyone's responsibility to be familiar with these rules.  Responsibility for such misconduct requires intent but is not excused by ignorance.

VI.3  The consequences of academic misconduct of any sort will be severe. Expulsion from the University may be the appropriate action.  The Department of Economics enforces these rules in order to protect the interests of the vast majority of its students who are honest and hardworking.