Academic Honesty

I. Policy Statement

Mitchell Community College puts forth every reasonable effort to maintain academic integrity in the instructional program. To compromise integrity through acts of academic dishonesty seriously jeopardizes the quality of instruction and the caliber of education we purport to provide our students. Any form of academic dishonesty is unacceptable and if detected will result in disciplinary action.

II. Definitions:

Cheating: Intentionally and knowingly using unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise or matter.
Plagiarism: Intentionally and knowingly representing in any academic exercise or matter the words or ideas of another as one’s own.
Fabrication: Intentionally and knowingly falsifying or inventing information or citations in an academic exercise.
Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: Intentionally and knowingly helping or attempting to help another to commit an act of cheating, plagiarism, or fabrication.
Identity Verification: The College must verify that any student who registers for an online, hybrid, or blended course is in fact the same student who participates in, completes, and receives the credit for the course.

For Academic Dishonesty Procedure, please visit Academic Dishonesty Procedure - Mitchell Community College, Serving Iredell County (mitchellcc.edu)