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g. Providing false or misleading information in an effort to injure another student academically or financially. h. Providing false or misleading information or official documentation in an effort to receive a postponement or an extension on academic work, test, quiz, other assignment credit for attendance, and/or obtain an academic or financial benefit for oneself or another individual. i. Any other action or attempted action that may result in creating an unfair academic advantage for oneself or may result in creatin an unfair academic advantage or disadvantage for another student that is not already articulated. 5. Plagiarism a. The use and passing off of ideas or writings of another, including digitally curated sources, as one’s own. b. The representation of words, ideas, illustrations, structure, computer code, other expression or media of another as one’s own and/or failing to properly cite direct, paraphrased or summarized materials. c. Self-plagiarism which involves the submission of the same academic work more than once without the prior permission of the instructor and/or failure to correctly cite previous work written by the same student.

Academic Integrity Policy Violation Sanctions

Faculty members are expected to report all incidents of misconduct through the Maxient system using the following link: https://cm.maxient.com/reportingform.php?BeaconCollege&layout_id=1.

Academic Misconduct Sanctions may include, but are not limited to the following:

Policy Violation

First Violation

Second Violation

Third Violation

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