ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY

The academic integrity policies followed in Math 233 are consistent with and evolve from the College of Arts and Sciences Academic Integrity Policy.   In cases where there is evidence suggesting that cheating may have taken place on a Math 233 exam, the evidence will be forwarded to the Academic Integrity Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences for adjudication.  Both the instructor and the student(s) involved will be asked to appear before the Committee to answer questions.  If the Committee finds that cheating occurred, it will impose a penalty.  Students should be aware that the normal policy of the Committee is to direct the instructor to assign a failing grade for the course to each student deemed guilty of exam cheating.

 Cheating on Math 233 homework is a different matter, however.  Blind copying of someone else's homework is the most egregious form of plagiarism in mathematics coursework. As mentioned in the section on Homework Policy, when homework graders discover identical handwritten solutions to one or more problems and view as exceedingly remote the odds that this may have occurred by chance, the total credit available for the pertinent problems will be divided among the collaborators.  Instances of this sort will not be brought to the attention of the Arts and Sciences Integrity Committee. Another form of plagiarism is to use someone else's ideas without acknowledgment.  As part of the overall efforts of the College of Arts and Sciences to instill in students the habit of acknowledging the work of others in every intellectual endeavor,  students are requested to name at the top of their papers the people with whom they discussed one or more homework problems.