Academic Misconduct - Handbook

Middle Tennessee State University strives to promote values and attitudes that are reflective of solid academic character and integrity. For this reason, MTSU expects each student to complete assignments that are original and reflective of that individual student. Academic integrity is an essential component of a quality education. When students participate in behavior that is considered to be academic misconduct, the scholarly value of their education is lessened. Academic misconduct is defined as follows:

• Plagiarism- the adoption or reproduction of ideas, words, statements, images, of works of another person's as one's own without proper acknowledgment
• Cheating- using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise. The term academic exercise includes all forms of work submitted for credit or hours.
• Fabrication- unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise
• Facilitation- helping or attempting to help another to violate a provision of the institutional code of academic misconduct

For more information:

• Office of the Assistant Dean for Judicial Affairs and Mediation Services , KUC 128, 898-2750.