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North Central Texas College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, or disability in the employment or the provision of services.
Specific Conduct Regulations/Restrictions as found in NCTC Catalog 2017-18, page 266-267
Violations of the Student Code of Conduct shall include aiding, abetting, conspiring, soliciting, inciting of, or attempting to commit the following:
1. Academic Dishonesty:
a. Cheating:
(1) Copying from or reviewing another student’s examination prior to or during the examination.
(2) Copying from another student’s paper, laboratory report, presentation, computer program, or other assignment.
(3) Using or possessing unauthorized notes, books, test materials, electronic devices, or other aids in any academic exercise or activity.
(4) Submitting the same paper, report, or other assignment for more than one course without the expressed permission of the faculty member.
(5) Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test without permission from the test administrator.
(6) Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of a paper, another assignment, or test, whether it has been administered or not.
(7) The unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of a test, whether it has been administered or not.
(8) Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for one’s self, to take a test.
(9) Bribing another person to obtain a test or information about a test, whether it has been administered or not.
b. Plagiarism:
(1) Appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it into one’s own written work.
(2) Copying or using the ideas, writings, paraphrases, data, reports, graphic designs, or computer codes of published or unpublished work of another person without appropriate citation or acknowledgments.
(3) Reproducing or using the ideas, materials, works, paraphrases, data, reports, graphic designs, or computer codes prepared by another person or agency without authorization, permission or acknowledgment.
c. Collusion: Unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements including a presentation, laboratory report, quiz, homework, take-home examination, project, or other work expected to be completed as an individual or independently.
d. Academic Falsification:
(1) Providing false, altered, or fabricated information or documentation in the context of an academic assignment, examination, or obligation, such as creating a false source for an assignment or citing a source one did not use.
(2) Altering grades on an assignment, examination, laboratory report, quiz, or other academic work and submitting such to a faculty member or College District employee.
(3) Using false or altered information, data, or identification in the context of an academic obligation.
e. Intellectual Property Dishonesty:
(1) Altering, removing, or defacing College District library or educational materials.
(2) Selling, electronically posting, publishing, or distributing course lecture notes, handouts, recordings, or other materials or information from the faculty member of the course without the expressed permission of the faculty member.
(3) Removing or intentionally damaging the academic property of a faculty member or another student, including projects, books, papers, notes, laboratory assignments, clinical forms, or electronic hardware or software.
(4) Obtaining or using the password of a faculty member or another student to access course hardware or software.
(5) Taking credit on a group assignment when one did not contribute toward completion of the assignment.
(6) Violating the ethical standards of practices in professional programs (i.e., health sciences, nursing, emergency medical assistance, and the like).
f. Academic Dishonesty Facilitation: Assisting any person in the commission of academic misconduct, including but not limited to:
(1) Aiding, abetting, or attempting to commit an academic misconduct violation.
(2) Allowing another student to copy or use one’s answers during an examination or in the completion of an assignment.
(3) Taking, completing, or attempting to take an examination or complete assignment for another student.
(4) Listing another student on a group assignment when the student did not contribute in any manner toward completion of the assignment.
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