What is Academic Dishonesty
Academic integrity is a fundamental principle of learning and a necessary foundation for all academic institutions, particularly those dedicated to independent project-based education. Upholding these principles allows all students an opportunity to obtain confident command of material, and to receive deserved rewards and recognition. All members of the WPI community should maintain high standards of academic integrity to protect the value of the educational process and maintain the credibility of the institution.
Education involves the search for and acquisition of knowledge and understanding, which must be evaluated by instructors. As each course/project is unique, evaluation methods may differ in different courses/projects. Thus, instructors set the context of the academic integrity policy in their own courses. Any student act that interferes with the evaluation of students’ actual state of knowledge is a breach of the academic integrity policy.
Academic Integrity at WPI
Learn about what Academic Integrity is at WPI and more about the policy below.
Academic Integrity is defined within the following constructs at WPI:
- Cheating: Attempting to use or intentionally using unauthorized study aids, materials, information, or assistance in any academic activity or assessment.
- Fabrication: Falsification or invention of data, information, and/or citations in any academic activity, or alteration of official academic records.
- Facilitation: Helping or attempting to help another student to violate any provision of the academic integrity policy.
- Plagiarism: Using words, ideas, assertions, data, creative works, or graphics of another without proper attribution in any academic activity.
The academic integrity policy applies to all matriculated and non-matriculated students at WPI. You can learn more about the Academic Integrity Policy and Process here.
This webpage adapts information from the University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus, Harvard University, and other colleges and universities.