ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICIES

You are a student at the University of San Carlos,

onward to becoming a Carolinian Witness to the Word,
because you demonstrated the necessary intellectual
ability and because USC sees a potential in you to make a
significant contribution to human thought and knowledge
that promotes progress and betterment of society and
environment. At your respective department in USC, you
will be given special opportunities to do research and
undertake scholarship that will advance knowledge in your
fields of study. Along the way, you will also face many
challenges.

As the world has become more complex and more

dependent on online education and resources, USC
anticipates that you will pursue your studies with purpose
and integrity. The cornerstone of scholarship in all
academic disciplines is HONESTY. The university, and all its
administrators and most especially your teachers, who are
now your online learning facilitators, expect that you will
approach everything you do here honestly – whether
doing assignments or projects, writing a research or critical
paper, or answering an exam. Remember that one of the
Carolinian core values of Virtus is integrity, a trait which is
integral to your academic life and even more so to your
future career or profession.
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 According to Quintos 2017, academic dishonesty refers to “Any deliberate act of
violation of an educational institution’s prescribed rules or standard conditions on
honesty that involves either the (1) passing off or declaring of something – be it data,
information, answer, or product – as generated from one’s own sincere effort or work,
when, it is not or (2) engaging in activities that will directly or indirectly put the purpose
and integrity of any academic exercise into jeopardy”.
The following are some types and examples of academic dishonesty

1. Cheating - taking or giving any information or material which will be used to

determine academic credit. Examples include copying from another student’s test or
homework; allowing another student to copy from your test or homework, using
materials such as textbooks, notes, or formula lists during a test without the professor’s
permission; collaborating on an in-class or take-home test or assignment without the
professor’s permission

2. Misrepresentation - any act or omission that is intended to deceive an instructor

for academic advantage which includes lying to an online learning facilitator in an
attempt to increase your grade, or lying when confronted with allegations of academic
dishonesty.

3. Fabrication - the use of invented or misrepresentative information, which

includes creating or altering experimental data and listing a source in your references
cited that you did not actually use in your paper.

4. Collusion - the act of two or more students working together on an

individuallygraded assignment or project.

5. Duplicate submission – submission of the same output for two different classes
without prior informed consent of the online learning facilitators.

6. Conspiracy - working together with one or more persons to commit or attempt

to commit academic dishonesty.

7. Academic misconduct - the violation of the school or university policies by

tampering with grades or by obtaining and/or distributing any part of a test or
assignment, such as obtaining a copy of a test before the test is administered,
distributing, either for money or for free, an exam before it is administered, encouraging
others to obtain a copy of a test before the it is administered, changing grades in a

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gradebook, on a computer, or on an assignment and continuing to work on a test after
time is called.

8. Improper online and blended course use – includes accepting or providing

outside help on online assignments or tests.

9. Disruptive Behavior - any behavior that interferes with the teaching/learning

process. Disruptive behavior includes, but not limited to, disrespecting a professor or
another student, talking with microphones on during synchronous lectures, viewing and
sharing material unrelated to the course during a lecture, and posting inappropriate
material or materials unrelated to the course on discussion boards and other
synchronous class activities.

10. Plagiarism - using another’s words, ideas, assertions, data, or figures and do not
acknowledge that you have done so or credit the author or authors for the work copied.
For a more detailed explanation on plagiarism, please follow link
https://tinyurl.com/y28zwu8e

The consequences for the different forms of academic dishonesty mentioned

above can be very serious, possibly including suspension or expulsion from the
university. Any violation of the rules outlined here and/or the USC student handbook,
established by the instructor of the class, or deviating from responsible conduct of
online classes, may be considered violations of academic integrity. As such, online
learning facilitators decide how to handle violations of academic integrity on a caseto-
case basis as enumerated below:
1. Within a class, the online learning facilitator determines what action is
appropriate to take. Such action may include:
• requiring the student to redo the assignment or project for a reduced grade.
• assigning the student a failing grade for the assignment.
• assigning the student a failing grade for the course.
2. The online learning facilitator may also submit documentation to the Office of
Student Affairs in the form of a letter to file for a formal complaint that will appear on
the student’s permanent record.
3. Disciplinary action through the Guidance Office and/or Office of Student Affairs
wherein cases for alleged academic misconduct are reviewed and in the case for the
need of official hearings. If the latter results in a verdict, the offender are subject to a
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full range of sanctioning outcomes, including probation, suspension, dismissal, or other
educational sanctions.

Conforme:

GEALON, NATASHA MARIE C.

Signature over printed name

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