2020–2021 CATALOG AND STUDENT HANDBOOK ACADEMIC INFORMATION AND UNIVERSITY POLICIES papers, labs). c) Collusion: Knowingly assisting, attempting to assist, or receiving assistance from another student or students to commit academic misconduct, or conspiring with any other person in or outside of the University to commit misconduct. d) Destruction, Theft, Obstruction, Interference: Seeking to gain unfair academic advantage by destroying, damaging, or stealing equipment or products of any academic exercise; or obstructing or interfering with an instructor’s materials or another student’s academic work. e) Fabrication, Falsification, Forgery: Deliberately falsifying, altering, or inventing student records, information, or citations. Forgery is the act of imitating or counterfeiting documents, signatures, and the like. f) Plagiarism is the act of representing an individual’s or organization’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own. Examples include: i. Using information (a paraphrase or quotation, in whole or in part) from a source without attempting to give credit to the author of that source. ii. Using charts, illustrations, images, figures, equations, etc., without citing the source. iii. Using an academic exercise (in whole or in part) purchased or copied from a ghostwriter or paper/essay mill. iv. Copyright infringement or piracy, including the use, alteration, or duplication of media, software, code, or information when expressly prohibited or where copyright exists or is implied. III. Violations: Students who violate the Academic Integrity Policy (commit academic misconduct) are subject to corrective action in order to deter future misconduct and to hold students accountable for their actions. Academic Integrity violations and corrective actions are documented and cumulative; corrective actions may be increased based on a past disciplinary record, the severity of the violation, and the impact upon the academic community. The University reserves the right to dismiss a student from the University for academic misconduct; students who are dismissed from the University because of academic misconduct may not reenroll. Students who commit Academic Misconduct also run the risk of harming future educational and employment opportunities. IV. Competency-Based Education (CBE) Violations: Students who violate the Academic Integrity Policy (commit academic misconduct) in a Competency-Based Education (CBE) course which allows multiple submissions may result in failing their first submission attempt. Subsequent deliverable attempts may be allowed pending consideration of past disciplinary record, the severity of the violation, and the impact upon the academic community. V. PLA Violations: Students who violate the Academic Integrity Policy (commit academic misconduct) in Credit by Assessment options, credit by examination (TO), or other Prior Learning Assessment options automatically fail the assessment without retake opportunity of the assessment in which the violation occurred or its equivalent. VI. Appeal: A student found in violation of the Academic Integrity Policy may appeal a finding of misconduct using the Academic Appeal Policy located in the catalog. Consortium Agreement Rasmussen University has signed consortium agreements among all Rasmussen University campuses. Course requirements for programs may be completed at any of the campus locations, as the schools have common ownership and common courses, and students will have the flexibility to take courses from all locations as they choose. Students who attend a class at a location other than their home campus (primary attendance location) will have their total tuition and fees charged by their home campus. All financial aid will be awarded and disbursed from the home campus. The home campus monitors satisfactory progress. A copy of the consortium agreement is kept on file at each campus. Students have the right to review and acknowledge the agreement prior to taking courses at other campuses. 155
