UMass Boston

Below is a sample list of academic dishonesty issues that can undermine the principles of honesty, fairness, and respect in the academic community.

1. Submitting an author’s published or unpublished work (e.g., material from a journal, Internet site, newspaper, or encyclopedia) as one’s own in whole, in part, or in paraphrase without fully and properly crediting the author. 
2. Submitting materials or work obtained from another student, individual, or agency as one’s own without full and proper attribution. 
3. Submitting material produced through unacknowledged or unauthorized collaboration with others as one’s own. 
4. Submitting substantially the same work to more than one course without prior approval from all instructors involved: i.e., dual or multiple submission. 
5. Using any unauthorized material during an examination, such as notes, tests, calculators, cell phones, PDAs, or other electronic or mechanical communication devices. Abuse of cellular devices with photographic capabilities and use of devices for purposes of photographing test questions or other notes and materials are also prohibited.
6. Obtaining answers to examination questions from another person with or without that person’s knowledge, furnishing answers to examination questions to another student, or using or distributing unauthorized copies of an examination or notes from an examination. 
7. Submitting an examination taken by another person as one’s own or taking an examination in another person’s place. 
8. Gaining or seeking to gain unauthorized access to or altering or destroying the paper or electronic files of a student, faculty member, or staff member for the purpose of gaining better academic standing and success.
9. Failing to adhere to professional standards or ethics of a discipline and/or violating the rules of an agency in the course of completing fieldwork, internship, practicum, student teaching, or clinical placement.
10. Interfering with an instructor’s ability to evaluate accurately a student’s competence or performance/misleading any person in connection with one’s academic work.