CHEATING
Cheating is considered a serious offense by the university and program officials. Cheating will result in dismissal from the diagnostic medical sonography program. The official university policy regarding cheating can be found in the University Policy Register. Copying the work of another student from current or previous class work on assignments or exams constitutes cheating. Obtaining and studying from old examinations given to previous students in this program constitutes cheating.
Students in the diagnostic medical sonography program will encounter former students who may have in their possession copies of writing assignments, take home assignments, and extra credit assignments that constitute part of the final grade in RIS courses. Take home assignments and extra credit assignments may be completed as part of a group of students or with assistance of clinical instructor at the clinical education sites if deemed permissible in instructions given by course instructor. However, copying the work of a former student is dishonest and will be considered cheating.
All quizzes and tests, including final examinations, are the property of 黑料不打烊 and the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program. Former students who may have copies of tests and final exams in their possession may be considered to be in possession of stolen property and will be prosecuted accordingly under the university policy regarding theft and stealing. Current students who accept the work or exam questions/answers of a former student (including electronically) will be considered guilty of both theft and cheating.
PLAGIARISM
To 鈥減lagiarize鈥 means to take and present as one鈥檚 own material the ideas or words of another, or to present as one鈥檚 own an idea or work derived from an existing source without full and proper credit to the source of the ideas, words, or works. This definition includes using another student鈥檚 work as your own as well as inadequately referencing other sources in your work. The use of artificial intelligence applications to construct papers will be considered as plagiarism.
Throughout the educational program, students may be required, with or without prior notice, to submit an electronic form of their written work in addition to a hard copy of an assignment.
Plagiarism is considered a serious offense by the university and program officials and will result in dismissal from the diagnostic medical sonography program. The University Policy on Plagiarism is available in the University Policy Register. Please read it.
Reviewed 2025
CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM
黑料不打烊 Administrative Policy 3-01.8
(A) Purpose. Students enrolled in the university, at all its campuses, are to perform their academic work according to standards set by faculty members, departments, schools and colleges of the university; and cheating and plagiarism constitute fraudulent misrepresentation for which no credit can be given and for which appropriate sanctions are warranted and will be applied.
(B) Definitions. As used in this rule:
(1) "Cheat" means intentionally to misrepresent the source, nature, or other conditions of academic work so as to accrue undeserved credit, or to cooperate with someone else in such misrepresentation. Such misrepresentations may, but need not necessarily, involve the work of others. As defined, cheating includes, but is not limited to:
(a) Obtaining or retaining partial or whole copies of examination, tests or quizzes before these are distributed for student use;
(b) Using notes, textbooks or other information in examinations, tests and quizzes, except as expressly permitted;
(c) Obtaining confidential information about examinations, tests or quizzes other than that released by the instructor;
(d) Securing, giving or exchanging information during examinations;
(e) Presenting data or other material gathered by another person or group as one's own;
(f) Falsifying experimental data or information;
(g) Having another person take one's place for any academic performance without the specific knowledge and permission of the instructor;
(h) Cooperating with another to do one or more of the above; and
(i) Using a substantial portion of a piece of work previously submitted for another course or program to meet the requirements of the present course or program without notifying the instructor to whom the work is presented.
(j) Presenting falsified information in order to postpone or avoid examinations, tests, quizzes, or other academic work.
(2) "Plagiarize" means to take and present as one's own a material portion of the ideas or words of another or to present as one's own an idea or work derived from an existing source without full and proper credit to the source of the ideas, words, or works. As defined, plagiarize includes, but is not limited to:
(a) The copying of words, sentences and paragraphs directly from the work of another without proper credit;
(b) The copying of illustrations, figures, photographs, drawings, models, or other visual and nonverbal materials, including recordings, of another without proper credit; and
(c) The presentation of work prepared by another in final or draft form as one's own without citing the source, such as the use of purchased research papers.
Please review the remainder of the KSU Administrative Policy intent, sanctions, procedures and appeals on the website at: /policyreg/administrative-policy-regarding-student-cheating-and-plagiarism
Policy 2006, 2011, 2014, 2018, 2023, 2025
Reviewed 2025